Celebrityism and the Multisite Church - Defend and Confirm Podcast
Defend & Confirm Podcast - Russell Berger & Sean DeMars
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26m
If you’ve listened to our episodes on the biblical definition of a “church”, you’ve probably figured out that we don’t believe the multisite church model is healthy, or biblical. In this episode, we unpack our concern that multisite churches are particularly at risk for developing a culture of celebrityism. What is celebrityism? How does it negatively impact God’s people? Listen and find out. I’m not just going to give it all away in the description.
This episode’s “book you should read” is an article: Twenty-Two Problems with Multisite Churches
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