Or, pardon the sophomoric humor, does size matter? From the Washington Post.
Congregants find megachurches offer more personal worship and sense of community than smaller churches, according to a study released yesterday that challenges the conventional wisdom that some large churches are too big to offer a spiritual experience.
Researchers at the Institute for Studies of Religion, [...]
Why do some churches decline and others thrive?
Is it style? Leadership? Programming? God’s will? According to Pastor Erwin McManus, it is that something else. Style, leadership, and programming is not the issue, but the heart is.
Quoting from the story…
“My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent so [...]
I started at my church in the fall of 2000. When I arrived, we were worshiping at around 550 on a Sunday. Two and a half years later we hit a low of 179. What happened? Several things.
By far the most significant was the moral failure of our senior pastor. For [...]
From the Washington Post…
The rhythmic clapping began the minute Amr Khaled stepped through the door of the packed Crystal City ballroom. Surrounded by security guards, the Egyptian preacher had to weave his way through the crowd — men both clean shaven and bearded, women both fashionably coifed and dressed in conservative Islamic dress — [...]
