Question: What are the benefits of multi-site over standard church plants?
 
 Answer: Multi-site church combines the benefits of big church and small church – the best of both worlds. Finance, assets and people can be economically and effectively shared in a multi-site model. For example, excellent pastors are not always excellent preachers, but multi-site allows for pastors-to-pastor and preachers-to-preach. Also, each site/congregation enjoys the security and stimulation of being part of something bigger around the city.
 
 Question: Why is video preaching working around the world?

 Answer:

•  A. Because even ‘non-anointed’ TV/movies work: Have you ever stopped to analyse the phenomena of TV/movies? The power with which you are impacted by a movie is amazing. Think about it: we all know that what we are watching is (a) make-believe; they are actors! (b) not current i.e. it was made months/years ago in another continent, (c) by people who don’t know us or care for us. And yet the medium of audio-visual coming to us from a screen keeps us riveted for hours, producing laughter, tears, and impacting us greatly. How much more will the impact of a preacher on a screen be: someone who is real and not acting, who knows us, loves us, and who preached it mere hours/days before, and who is preaching to us the Word of God that is living and active – it has supernatural power!
• B. Because if reading out a letter worked, how much more does Vid-link preaching: In New Testament times the word of God was effectively communicated via media - letters being read out: Col 4v16: After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Loadiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea. Paul used letters to communicate God’s word to the churches as they were the best tool available. It is not hard to image Paul using DVD’s, videoconferencing and satellite feeds to spread the gospel if he were alive today. Paul was not present, not visible, and the letter had been written months beforehand, yet it was the living word of God to those churches and even to us today!
• C. Because the Word of God is living and active (Heb 4) and is not limited by time or space. Although we are used to a live preacher, the biblical imperative is not a ‘live’ preacher, but rather the ‘live’ (living) Word of God.
• D. Because we live in an increasing screen-ager culture.