{"id":432,"date":"2011-10-18T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-10-18T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:18:46","slug":"bigger-is-not-always-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Is Not Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Organization.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Organization-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Organization\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-433\" \/><\/a><i> The definition of \u201cOrganization \u201c according to Webster Merriam dictionary is \u201can administrative and functional structure (as a business or a political party); also : the personnel of such a structure.\u201d <\/i>  Many churches have become, what I call,  \u201cmaintenance organizations.\u201d  They are more determined to maintain their existing membership than minister to a broken and dying world. They placate members with topical antidotes (and sprinkle the name of Jesus) like \u201cMarriage Conferences\u201d rather than send their members out to minister to real broken homes. They defend their indolence to the perpetual urgent call of the Gospel by developing occasional, extravagant outreach programs that yield little at great cost.  Their appearance is liken to a fat, well groomed, diamond studded, lazy cat awaiting its next meal.  Dazzling programmed entertainment, comfort and accommodation fill the services.  Messages are laced with video enhancement, encouragement and comical pith&#8217;s to tickle the listener\u2019s ear. The church is ran just like the world\u2019s business\u2019 with myriads of redundant meetings. These meetings develop policies and action lists creating more work to maintain it\u2019s machinery; it\u2019s organization. Making the overall environment one of extreme \u201cbusyness.\u201d<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nJesus said in Luke 10, \u201cMartha, Martha,\u201d the Lord answered, \u201cyou are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOnly one thing is needed&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of \u201cOrganization \u201c according to Webster Merriam dictionary is \u201can administrative and functional structure (as a business or a political party); also : the personnel of such a structure.\u201d Many churches have become, what I call, \u201cmaintenance organizations.\u201d They are more determined to maintain their existing membership than minister to a broken and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,65,66,69,68],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-business","tag-busyness","tag-church","tag-facade","tag-outreach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}