Building the “Church Growth” or “Mega-Church” towers can be attractive. They provide programs and community support. They are palatable and trendy. This paradigm is also addictive for those who lead the congregation. A constant diet of statistics and the need for “more and more” of baptisms, offerings, buildings, programs, etc… is also a symptom of motives gone wild. Although numerical, financial and spatial growth is not bad, it is the condition of the heart which drives them that can lead to problems.

The second tower is that of opinion. Sometimes this tower is called by the name, “doctrine”, but in reality is more one’s viewpoint. Our movement is given to following banners of narrow interpretation. Mostly this is good. Some, however, take advantage of this tendency to form factions and eventually divisions. If one wanted to form their own congregation they could easily pull some obscure scripture to accuse their current church of not following the Bible. “`We don’t wash each others feet’ or `we don’t recommend wine for all stomach ailments’ as in the Bible, therefore we need to break fellowship with those who refuse to employ these biblical practices.” Although this is a facetious example, we must be on guard against people who desire to build their towers by creating unity around opinion banners.

Comfort is the second part of the heart surround in the building of the Tower of Babel. “…and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." They wanted to be where they were and not spread. It was good where they resided, why move? Although they were working hard on their tower, it was ultimately motivated by the desire for stagnation. There can be great unity in comfort and stagnation God is not pleased with it.