The finest church that Rolus Smith ever knew was the Lord’s Chapel.
For more than 15 years, Smith was an elder at the 2,500-member Nashville congregation. Crowds packed the church on Granny White Pike, drawn by the church’s contemporary music and charismatic practices like speaking in tongues. The Rev. Billy Roy Moore’s sermons made the Bible come alive.
Then it all fell apart.
Moore moved away after his son died in a car crash. People dropped out rather than shift to a new, 50,000-square-foot church seven miles away. When the Lord’s Chapel finally closed down in 2003, there were 40 people left.
“It was the power of God that brought people to the church – and I don’t know how we got away from that,” Smith said. “That’s a question I’ve asked myself a thousand times.”
The last three decades have been boom times for big churches like the Lord’s Chapel. In the 1970s, only a handful of churches drew more than 2,000 people on Sundays. Now they number in the thousands.
But the collapse of the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles, which is being sold off to pay more than $40 million in debt, has prompted fears that the megachurch
bubble may be about to burst.
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After I read this article it kind of made me think. Mega-Churches. The article continues saying they wonder if mega-churches in the US can keep going? Loads of money being put out in rent, repairs, payroll, etc and with attendence being down in many parts of the US is there as much money coming in?
What do you think about this article and Mega-Churches?
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