The Latest in MegaChurches. I have never been to a
big creepy megachurch. This is my first confession. I have never been to, say,
Lakewood Church in Houston, the biggest glossiest megachurch of all, which just
dumped a staggering $75 million to renovate the former stadium for the Houston Rockets and turn it into a massive pulsing swaying arm-raisin' eye-glazed weirdly repressed
House o' Jesus.
I have never been to
World Changers in Georgia or
New Birth Missionary Baptist in Texas or
Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa or the
Potter's House in Dallas or the
Phoenix First Assembly of God, et al., all of which claim well over 15,000 regional followers (some 20,000 or even 30,000) and most of which operate much more like careening multitentacled corporations than humble homes of
spiritual connection and love. But, you know, quibbling.
posted by The Jesse Helms
on Aug 4, 2005 -
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