{"id":829,"date":"2010-03-11T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2010-03-11T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:34:32","slug":"good-interview-on-small-churches-paul-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/good-interview-on-small-churches-paul-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Interview on Small Churches: Paul Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 3\/25\/10 – For some reason, the creators of this promotional video have chosen to no longer promote and marked the video as private. Sorry if you didn’t see it as it really was a good and important interview.\u00a0 Guess I’m definitely not going to the conference now.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know that I’m going to this conference, but I really appreciate what Paul Cunningham says in this video. It is time to stop glorifying large or megachurches just for being large. If they are not adequately discipling people, they are not a healthy church, regardless of how large they are.<\/p>\n

It’s past time to end the consumer mentality in the church. Consumer-filled “Walmart” churches (of any size) are rarely, if ever, healthy.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 3\/25\/10 – For some reason, the creators of this promotional video have chosen to no longer promote and marked the video as private. Sorry if you didn’t see it as it really was a good and important interview.\u00a0 Guess I’m definitely not going to the conference now. 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