Recently I was listening to a panel discussion that included Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor at The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. His church is on the smaller end of huge with about six thousand people.

Someone asked the panel, "Should we abandon the para-church ministries we're involved in and try to make them a part of the local church?" After some nervous laughter from the crowd, and the panelists, Matt said, "There are certain para-church organizations that the church needs that a church, no matter how big it got or how talented it got would never be able to do... I could get the smartest people we have [in our church of 6,000 people] and we're never going to be able to translate the Bible into some language of a people group."