This is article #4 in a 10 part series that will appear each Sunday: Does God Have a Future?
Digest of past articles…
Link to article #1 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 1…An Introduction
Link to article #2 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 2…The Conundrum Between Spirituality, Religion, and God
Link to article #3 here…Does God have a Future? Part 3… Has Satan been that Bad Really?
In 1976, 34 percent of Americans were classified as evangelicals. Twenty-five years later, the number was up to 46 percent. Today, the number is as high as 52%. Of course this begs the question, is there some correlation between the growth of mega churches and the growth in the evangelical community? Do coffee holders in the pews, multi-media presentations, over the top sermons, and worship performances somehow draw people closer to God…or is all this drowning God out? If drawing big crowds and appealing to a larger audience, is this nothing more than an example of mass marketing to the secular world, then where does God fit in?
I am confident that there are many tried and true believers that make up the hard core foundation of many, if not most, of these big box churches. Yet what are we to make of the many that sit on the sidelines and just along for the ride? Should these numbers count at all? Are the mega churches just markting fluff?
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