Chpt 12: Holding on to Speaching

For those of you tuning in: I've been doing a series of posts as I review a wonderful book "Preaching Re-Imagined" by Doug Pagitt. The posts are carbon copies from the ones I've placed on the blog for this wonderful book.
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A question has been raised and answered that I have had in regards to Progressional Dialogue. "What about in larger churches?"
I love the quick thought of downsizing gatherings. Wonderful. THis has been another focus I've had, that large churches "shouldn't be". I can't discount the amount of work and stuff pumped into our era because of these megachurches, but no where in the Bible do we see them... "maybe we should reconsider the strucutres that put thousands of people in one room at the same time." (pg 108)

"Our churches should never be places where the practices of faith are allowed to become stagnant and predictable in the name of stability."

This is so true in "utopia church" however I see this has happened especially in the realm of speaching. God has created us in order that we may create.... well why did we stop creating? Did we come up with such a masterpiece (speaching) that anything else would be seen as crap? Why is it in a world that is constantly evolving the church has stopped evolving? Don't you find it sad that you can attend XYZ church any given sunday and predict the structure of service and that speaching will happen and when? Is stability and control that important to us that we can't see past us and look to God to guide our churches?