Tom,

If your looking for more material on this topic you may want to read Os Guiness' book, "DINING WITH THE DEVIL: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity." In it he points out that when all is said and done there's one question that needs to be asked.

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In implementing its vision of church growth, is the church of Christ primarily guided and shaped by its own character and calling - or by considerations and circumstances alien to itself? Or, to put the question differently, is the church of Christ a social reality truly shaped by a theological cause, namely the Word and Spirit of God? In sum, what - in practice - is the church's decisive authority?

Behind this question lies the fact that the church of God "lets God be God" and is the church only when she lives and thrives finally by God's truths and God's resources. If the church make anything else the decisive principle of her existence, Christians risk living unauthorized lives of faith, excercising unauthorized ministries, and proclaiming an unauthorized gospel.

This book indicts seeker-sensitive mega-churches for providing a secularized evangelicalism that prizes success and worldly acclaim over theology and biblical fidelity.


Wes

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts