Bidding intensifies for Calif. megachurch – Yahoo! News.
The story continues. Mismanagement, not cultivating outreach to younger generations, and cult of personality. For me, not only is it evidence of the death of the megachurch as boomer phenom, but also points to the decline of mainline denominations. We grew with the boomer wave and catering to them. Now we are dying with them and the secular and religious survivors will fight over our valuables and leave the rest to decay.
Sad, it doesn’t have to be this way but in some cases, like the Crystal Cathedral, the patient is already brain dead. It will make a fine university campus, new Roman Catholic cathedral, or museum to how an effective form of evangelism led by a creative boomer turned off their kids and fulfilled the seven last words of the church “we have never done it that way before.”
good observations, we need to consider the future, now.
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