Most
small churches simply do not engage in social service.
But there are also some things mega-churches can do
that small churches simply can not — primarily those things requiring an excessive amount of funding.
Not exact matches
Maintaining groups of
small churches which are ineffective and not growing, but
simply keeping going, really is not where the future lies.
I'm not sure why this is, but it seems like Mainline Protestant
churches are less likely to have «
small groups» where members gather together in one another's homes to
simply share life together.
They can not
simply always be left to the various individual and
smaller units of the
Church.
In a plant like ours, we are
small and
simply don't have enough mass yet to do very many things, and so I have been doing some teaching on the universal body of believers, which is call «Big C
Church,» and how we can be involved in other
churches in town to get what we ourselves can not offer.
Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not
simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a
church of ca. 160 people in a
small town outside Philadelphia.
, and rush out of the house with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to
church, and then... then I would
simply turn north, through the
small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man, subject to no ancient religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.
Instead,
simply bring a pacifier to
church with you, or bring a
small bottle of milk or something, and those things will suffice for your baby until you can get back to the privacy of your own home.
If you go to a relatively large
church (700 or more) they make it really easy to meet Christian singles
simply by having
small groups.
Because of Winn - Dixie opens with young Opal (AnnaSophia Robb) and her father, known
simply as «The Preacher» (Jeff Daniels) moving to a very
small Southern town, so that «The Preacher» can start a new
church inside an old convenience store.
For example, the Peterborough Diocese Education Trust has «a higher - than - average number of
smaller schools»
simply because
church schools tend to be
smaller.
Or
simply wander through the idyllic town in search of a
small, pretty
church called «Madonna Di Lampedusa».