When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.
Now there is nothing wrong with good business. Bad business is certainly not desirable for the church. Wise pastors and church officers will do everything they can, with care, to apply those principles and practices which maximize the effectiveness of their churches, however small or large they may be. Bigness is not evil, and smallness is not a virtue. But the question is, When do these principles and practices cease being tools for the church, when do they dominate its life to the extent that they become its master?

- Richard C. Halverson, 1916–1995; from The Living Body (1994). Christianity Today, Vol. 40, no. 1.