Some critics suggest that focus on the growth of large churches is a misguided and even unbiblical preoccupation. The issue, however, is not ultimately one of large church vs small church but one of a biblically centered priority for obedience to Great Commission kinds of reproduction of both believers and churches. This just happens to be the size of about 80 percent of America's churches that meet each weekend. Think about that for a moment. Obviously, they would look like churches with less than 200 people.
Examples abound on our landscape today.
The churches, obviously, were not confined to the city limits of Jerusalem. You simply can't keep Jesus in Nazareth. The street version of church growth often implies that all churches start small, are meant to stay small, and as a result are small. That was not always the case in the Bible and it is not always true today. The issue is not size.