Or, pardon the sophomoric humor, does size matter?  From the Washington Post.

Congregants find megachurches offer more personal worship and sense of community than smaller churches, according to a study released yesterday that challenges the conventional wisdom that some large churches are too big to offer a spiritual experience.

Researchers at the Institute for Studies of Religion, who defined megachurches as those with more than 1,000 worshipers, found that their members were twice as likely to have friends in the congregation than members of small churches. They also displayed a higher level of personal commitment to the church — attending services and tithing more often than small-church members.

Quoting later on…

Because evangelical Christians are encouraged to share the Gospel with others, the Baylor researchers found that more than half of megachurch members said they shared their faith with strangers in the past month and more than 80 percent witness to friends — far more than those who attend small churches.

This does make some sense to me.  It seems that larger church can allocate more resources to communication and do a better job of controlling all of the distractions that come across the desk of a mid-sized or small church pastor.

But on the other hand many people recently have made, what I find to be compelling arguments, that the mega church’s effectiveness is both overrated and worship evangelism may have severely missed the mark.

What do you think?

This article was found via Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee.