{"id":216,"date":"2010-10-15T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/197-multi-site-churches.html"},"modified":"2010-10-15T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T12:11:28","slug":"197-multi-site-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/197-multi-site-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"#197 Multi-site churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"multisite.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/multisite\/multisite.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"472\" height=\"316\" \/><\/span>As evangelical churches vie to become bigger by use of business tactics, they&#8217;re outgrowing their buildings. As such, the multi-site church has sprung whole from the American business model. <\/p>\n<p>A multi-site church has a <i>main campus <\/i>and many smaller spawn called <em>satellites <\/em>that operate under the auspices of the <em>parent church<\/em>. (Vocab words are in italics.) The <em>satellite church<\/em> is sort of a sequel to the original. It&#8217;s of the same lineage but everyone really likes the first one better, though in Christian culture they won&#8217;t say it out loud. People prefer the original because that is where the charismatic pastor man who started the whole enterprise speaks live and in person.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"satellite4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/multi-site\/satellite4.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" \/><\/span>His title is <i>teaching pastor<\/i>, <i>preaching pastor<\/i> or <i>lead pastor<\/i>, and he very seldom appears in person at any of the satellite churches. The satellites are basically theaters sprinkled around a 50 mile radius (sometimes larger) as overflow reservoirs. At these satellites the lead pastor&#8217;s visage is beamed onto a big screen as he preaches live from the main campus. People assemble in the satellite buildings to sing worship songs, listen to the real live <i>campus pastor<\/i> make announcements, and then watch the main-attraction pastor speak via satellite. Everyone who attends accepts this arrangement as fine and even good.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"holographicapocalypse.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/multisite\/holographicapocalypse.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"622\" height=\"494\" \/><\/span>When you see a pastor preaching on a big screen, there is a .0042% chance you would ever be granted a personal meeting with him.  Again, this is accepted by the general populace as okay. The New Testament pastors understood they had a shepherding role over the church and felt a personal relationship with each of the members was vitally important, but this aspect of the ancient church is falling by the wayside as technology advances. What can I say, holograms are pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chandlerhologram.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/multisite\/chandlerhologram.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"525\" height=\"294\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evangelical churches vie to become bigger by use of business tactics, they&#8217;re outgrowing their buildings. 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