A new report written by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Leadership Network, “Megachurches Today 2005,” has tallied the number of U.S. megachurches at 1,210: double the number of churches with 2,000 or more congregants that existed five years ago, reflecting a growth rate not likely to slow down any time soon. Arguing that megachurches are tremendously important from a sociological perspective, and for their example of how churches draw congregations in today’s “cultural reality,” and that also, “not a week passes without megachurches figuring prominently in one or more national news stories,” or megachurch pastors landing books on bestseller lists, the authors undertake to dispel “11 megachurch myths.”
Megachurches Today
06 February 2006