Church growth – the Korean model
I’m just catching up on a raft of old blog posts that I should have read a while ago but didn’t get around to. Anyway, Marko has been out to Korea to talk about publishing out there, his accounts of the trip are well worth a read.
The post that caught my eye though is from yesterday where he says,
- people have asked me why i think there are so many massive churches in korea. i’m sure there are scholarly and researched books that give the correct answer to that question; but my 2 cents is this:
first, christianity grew from basically 0% of the population to 25% of the population in roughly 50 or 60 years, with a real explosion in the 70s and 80s. the speed of growth led to huge churches, church planting couldn’t keep up with the massive influx of new believers.
second, most of the large churches grew like crazy in the 70s and 80s on church growth models of small groups. really, all the big churches here are a hive of small groups, rather than a big “seeker” show like some of our “large” (though small, by comparison!) churches in the states. [read the whole post here]
Just found it interesting, all these mega churches founded on small groups.
