Small-Church Advantages + PDF Discussion Guide, NTRF.org

Every New Testament letter that was written to an illegal congregation that met secretly in someone's home. This necessarily meant that each congregation was smaller rather than larger—not thousands of people in a single congregation, not hundreds in the same gathering, but scores of believers. Arguably, the ecclesiology presented in the epistles was designed to work in smaller contexts. Since the typical pastor then was bi-vocational, this first century, small-church ecclesiology is worth considering!

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