The Megachurch Built a Generation That Couldn't Find God in It

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The Megachurch Built a Generation That Couldn't Find God in It

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For thirty years, the dominant American church-growth strategy assumed that the way to reach the next generation was to make Christianity feel less like Christianity. Lower the lights. Lose the hymnal. Trade the pulpit for a barstool. Replace the cross on the wall with a tasteful abstract panel. Preach in jeans. Quote movies more than Moses. Make Sunday morning feel like a TED talk, a concert, and a coffee shop fused into one experience the unchurched would not find threatening.

It worked, by the only metrics that strategy was designed to measure. The buildings got bigger. The parking lots got bigger. The brand got bigger. A generation of pastors became national figures. A generation of churchgoers became consumers of religious content.

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