Goodmanson recently posted a piece on 5 trends in church planting.  The last one jumped out at me.

5.  More churches will be planted without the role of a preaching pastor.  Many church plant organizations will promote the use of ‘best of’ or license videos from top preachers across America.  Already there have been churches who have licensed Willow Creek material for tens of thousands (I heard $50k) a year.  Others will simply pick series that they believe will draw the biggest crowd.  There already is one church plant that has grown to over 600 within a couple months using this method.  (Someone could probably make some good money by contacting all the ‘big name’ pastors and create a company that licenses their work to churches.)

Source: http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-08/26/five-trends-for-the-future-of-church-planting/

What do you think about this?  On one hand it is possible to expose more people to the best teaching available, but on the other hand it caters to American consumerism and takes the sermon out of a local context.