The New Testament Church was a Mega Church

[Pitts S2C]

I currently attend a mega church w/3,500 attendees each Sunday. My preacher (dare say Pastor) jokingly said on Sunday that the first church was a mega church when 3,000 souls were added that day. Can you imagine hearing that from a coC *pulpit?

*Note: Can't say podium or stage at the coC

[Ivy]

Lol.....but did they play the Rolling Stones as the bumper?

[bnot]

Ha! Good point

[Lev]

Never having been to a megachurch, I have to ask: what is a bumper?

[margin overa]

Never having been to a megachurch, I have to ask: what is a bumper?

I didn't know what that was until recently, either - it's a presentation or video inserted between say, the singing and the sermon to dramatize or accentuate the message of the speaker or whatever is coming next. I only found this out through a friend's son, who is interning with a Christian media business to provide professional versions of bumper videos for big churches.

[Lev]

Bumpers aren't part of the pattern. Never mentioned in the New Testament. Except maybe John the Baptist as a human bumper for Jesus. On second thought, we have a clear example for bumpers and that example is binding. Time to disfellowship all those bumperless churches. Stand and sing.

Lev

[Ivy]

Bumpers aren't part of the pattern. Never mentioned in the New Testament. Except maybe John the Baptist as a human bumper for Jesus. On second thought, we have a clear example for bumpers and that example is binding. Time to disfellowship all those bumperless churches. Stand and sing.

Lev

h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5GOH2CO1k

If you try sometime you might get what you need.

[Pitts S2C]

At a conservative coC the bumper is the 'announcements'. Those are critically important & authorized.

'Now let us all focus our minds, block out worldly thoughts and prepare to worship'

'Oh and here is a list of people who are not present---sick, vacation, work, shut-in's or just plain absent'

[cathym]

I'm sure they were a multi-campus church with lots of small groups, though.

[KLP]

oooohh!!! BUMPERS....I thought yall said bumpkins and I was wondering yall didn't have no bumpkins?