“Multi-site Churches Are from the Devil” was the headline of a blog post written by Thabiti Anyabwile on the Gospel Coalition website. In his blog post, he defends that statement by explaining how “video multi-site tends to idolatry, pride, and self-promotion – even where the ambition of spreading the gospel is genuine.” He also argues, amongst many other things, that “multi-site churches reduce the family, body, and flock to an anonymous assembly” and essentially changes the nature of the church into an assembly, rather than a group of disciples on mission.
There are many objections to multi-site, even by way of scrolling through the 250+ comments of Anyabwile’s blog post, we quickly discover that there are legitimate arguments on both sides.
According to A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip, the objections can be summed up into these five categories:
- Preachers don’t know people personally
- Churches are just following the latest fads and trends
- Multi-sites make church into a show
- There are going to be negative outcomes
- Multi-sites fail to make disciples (this is the objection that is most relevant to this post)
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