Comments on church size....

So I was at this party last night....  There were tons of kids there milling around.  It didn't take long, however, for most of the people to kind of sort themselves out into smaller groups.  Even in the middle of large groups its seems people can be totally lonely unless they have smaller groups of people to be connected to.  I believe God established the church at large but he establishes smaller groups of believers to give people this intimate connection with other people. 

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Often people in large churches can get missed unless there is an effort to give people smaller groups to interact with.  My church recently set up small groups within the church to help people feel this small group connection.  I feel that a lot of what the Bible has to say about church life is talking about interacting with this team.  The people with whom you actually rub shoulders and have the greatest interaction.
If the smallest group is really what the Bible is referring to when it talks about church (on the smaller level) what is stopping us from not just meeting at this level all the time?  Sure, large churches may be less work--at least for some people, but I think overall most of us have way over shot the ideal church size.  How's this:  I think the ideal church size is no more than 50 and probably closer to 30 people.  If we are ever to be going to experience church like God intended I think we have to be sure we are experiencing a connection with a small group of believers.  If everything we do is as a large group (large group Sunday morning, large group youth activities, etc...) I think we will struggle to experience what God has designed.  I'm thankful to my small group for letting me experience this.