{"id":64299,"date":"2023-08-21T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64299"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:27:19","slug":"single-assembly-advancing-the-gospel-by-investing-in-other-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64299","title":{"rendered":"Single Assembly: Advancing the Gospel by Investing in Other Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are many ways to skin a cat.\u201d It\u2019s a strange saying, isn\u2019t it? I mean, who does that anyway! Even still, the idea finds purchase in conversations about fulfilling the Great Commission and multisite. The Great Commission is the cat, people say, and whether your church meets as a single assembly or in multiple sites and services are just different ways to skin it.<\/p>\n<p>I fundamentally disagree. I think the single assembly folks are right to argue that, a church is a single assembly.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> However, the purpose of this article is not to lay out the biblical case for single-assembly. Instead, it is to explain why this is ultimately the best model for accomplishing the Great Commission. In short, I believe a single assembly model moves churches toward greater catholicity, which in turn encourages evangelism and extends God\u2019s kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Single assembly does this in at least two ways.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(1) Single assembly forces churches to overflow outward.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, single assembly reduces your options. When your building is at capacity, you simply have to send members elsewhere or start a building project. Maybe you strategically send members to a struggling, like-minded church down the road. Maybe you plant a church in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implication of multi-site\/service models is that the best way for the lost in your town, city, or country to hear the gospel is the expansion of one particular empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-64299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-evangelism-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64301,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64299\/revisions\/64301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}