Multi-site Q&A Video

In March, we did a Sunday night Q&A time about Fellowship going multi-site and Fellowship Downtown. Check out the video to hear John Carroll, Ricky Jenkins, Bryan Loritts, and John Bryson address the questions that were submitted. 


Fellowship Downtown Q&A from Fellowship Memphis

Here are the questions we were asked to answer in the order we answered them on the video:

  • Can you be a part of Fellowship Downtown, if you don’t live downtown?
  • What is the time frame for launching Fellowship Downtown?
  • Why was the multi-site modeled adopted rather than a church plant model and how do we reconcile it to the New Testament Church?
  • Failure to develop young preachers. True spiritual multiplication should create MORE faithful preachers and teachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ - not less (2 Tim. 2:2). But if under the multi-church site model FEWER men are needed to teach MORE people, are we in danger of discouraging young men to become preachers?
  • How does the multi-site model fit into Fellowship Memphis’ desire Not to be a “Mega” church?
  • Is everything for Fellowship Downtown going to happen downtown? i.e. can a “Raliegh” family host things at their house, lead a community group, etc.
  • What will the worship be like at the downtown location? Will there be a separate worship band?
  • Loss of community. As Fellowship moves to a multi-site ministry, there will obviously be a growing relational gap between church leadership and church members, and potentially among members themselves. How will we bridge that gap?
  • Bryan’s celebrity status. I fear that multi-site churches could essentially be creating a class of “evangelical superstars” (a la John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Bryan Loritts). Can you talk about the pressures this “mega-preacher” position might create for Bryan and how we as a church can keep him humble?
  • What are some ways you guys have thought of to reach out to the Downtown community area? Or is that still kinda in the works?
  • Does the leadership of Fellowship feel that multi-site churches may bleed into the idea of “branding” the church name rather than multiplying the Church?  Why or why not?
  • Couldn’t the multi-site model encourage consumerism and anti-intellectualism in the church? How will we fight it?
  • What will the service times be Downtown?
  • Is there a site that has already been chosen?
  • What is the plan for kid’s Downtown?
  • Is there anything I can do now to help with Downtown?