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The Multi-Site Debate: A Modified Regulative Principal Approach

April 5, 2010

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There has been so much debate over the recent years about the local church’s use of multi-site campuses.  In fact, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, KY just posted an article on multi-site churches in Louisville, albeit my desire to post an article on TVN preceded the writing and publication of this article.  They cite guys like Daniel Montgomery and Ed Stetzer who are both proponents of multi-site.  Southern Seminary recently had a panel discussion during one of their chapel services on the multi-site debate where they invited Greg Gilbert, an opponent of multi-site from Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington DC, to engage in the conversation.  I am currently reading through Scott McConnell’s book “Multi-Site Churches: Guidance for the Movement’s Next Generation.”  There has been so much discussed already!  Lots of churches are taking this route.  We must ask:  Why?  What does the Bible say concerning the church setting/worship service and how it should be done?  Does the Bible allow multi-site or does it regulate worship services?  I hold to a modified-regulative principal (& attend a multi-site church), which I think is the best position to hold to in thinking through and implementing current missiological trends… one of which is the Multi-Site debate.  Allow me to defend myself.

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