Keith Posted September 5, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 733 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,017 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/01/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/09/1966 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Brokaw to Focus on Evangelical Movement By FRAZIER MOORE, Associated Press TV Writer Sunday, September 4, 2005 (09-04) 19:22 PDT , (AP) -- "While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades," Tom Brokaw says, "the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships." Consider New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., which marks the Easter holiday with a full-scale staging of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted September 5, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I can hardly wait to see how he tries to make good folks look like the incarnation of satan........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apothanein kerdos Posted September 5, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 8,713 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted September 5, 2005 He won't have to do it....they do it quite well themselves. I'm weary of any church that gladly takes the title of "mega-church". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie Posted September 6, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,026 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/13/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted September 6, 2005 All we have to do is look around and see that something is wrong with the churches in America. But he also explores why so many Americans are turning to this expression of faith, and whether some evangelicals are going too far: imposing on others their spiritual beliefs not only for personal reasons but also for political reasons. It should say "moral beliefs" because Holy Spirit usually aint in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted September 6, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Here we go again . . . Evangelicals are the greatest threat to our nation. I know the Evangelicals aren't perfect, but come on! And would you rather they call themselves "a supersized church"? "Mega" is just a term slabbed on very large congregations. And if the government and society weren't trying to shove immorality down our throats the Evangelicals would not have as strong a need to influence politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apothanein kerdos Posted September 6, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 8,713 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted September 6, 2005 Here we go again . . . Evangelicals are the greatest threat to our nation. I know the Evangelicals aren't perfect, but come on! And would you rather they call themselves "a supersized church"? "Mega" is just a term slabbed on very large congregations. And if the government and society weren't trying to shove immorality down our throats the Evangelicals would not have as strong a need to influence politics. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's the idea of a mega church. Why have they sought after numbers to begin with? Before you say they haven't...then why the coffee shops and gift shops that are priced at a regular price or over priced? Not all large churches are evil. In fact, I think it is better to have large churches because more can be accomplished, there's a potential for more structure. But let's be honest, how many "mega-churches" are large for that reason? Most of the time it's because t hey sought to be large...not because it was a by product. Oh well...like I said, no reason to make evangelicals look like fools cause we do a pretty good job of that ourselves.........on the flip side there are a good number who do what they are suppose to do (ref. Hurrican Katrina) and those stories will go untold. Who was the first on the scene at Katrina? The southern Baptist. Has anyone brought that up? Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bad biker Posted September 7, 2005 Group: Junior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 107 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/15/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted September 7, 2005 Who was the first on the scene at Katrina? The southern Baptist. Has anyone brought that up? Nope. I had not heard that. How do you know that, SJ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apothanein kerdos Posted September 7, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 8,713 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted September 7, 2005 Who was the first on the scene at Katrina? The southern Baptist. Has anyone brought that up? Nope. I had not heard that. How do you know that, SJ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Fox News reported it when it happened...and then said nothing else after it. CNN and MSNBC, to my knowledge, didn't bring up anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerioke Posted September 7, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,850 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/19/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1911 Share Posted September 7, 2005 My church is aspiring to become a mega church. The sad thing is they get all gushy and gleeful when the chairs are full of new people, but what they fail to acknowledge is that most of those people are from other churches and they've come to see the pastor Lennett J Anderson show. There are very few new converts. I always thought evangelism was about winning new souls to the kingdom, not borrowing old souls from the church up the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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