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By Lyle E. Schaller
With very good perception and interesting description, Schaller unearths the explanations at the back of the global emergence of Seven-Days-a-Week "megachurches," that are likely to be inclusive and pluralistic whereas small church buildings usually tend to be homogeneous and specific. Over a million copies of books written or edited by means of Schaller are actually in print.
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The world they have grown up in taught most of them how to cope with large-scale institutions, complexity, anonymity, vast distances, a fast pace, impersonal directions, and megachurches. That world also has taught them how to meet and make new friends in a variety 'of complex settings. By contrast, most of the Protestant churchgoers of 1940 grew up in a world filled with slow travel; strong kinship ties; county fairs; small movie houses that showed only one or two films every week; public transportation; small elementary schools; grocery stores in which the owner could call every customer by name; regional radio stations; a slower pace of life; powerful inherited loyalties, including language, nationality, race, and denominational self-identification; neighborhood-oriented institutions; short journeys from home to work; high schools with fewer than two hundred students; and small churches.
This leads into the second facet of this number-one reason for the growth of these large, full-service churches. When the sick have been healed, they want not only to share their joy, but also to encourage others to visit the place where they were healed. When the seekers have had their questions answered, they encourage others to experience what has changed their lives. Those who discover that their lives have been transformed by the power of Christ's love cannot avoid inviting others to come and share in that same experience.
Placing a high priority on missions is highly compatible with the life-style of a large and rapidly growing full-service congregation. Likewise, lowering the priority on missions is compatible with cutting back on programming and placing a greater emphasis on the care of the members and the concerns of the staff as part of a larger design to reduce the size of what once was a large and numerically growing parish. The Sinking Ship Syndrome "I may not be the smartest man in the world," explained the seventy-year-old who recently left a congregation that had been shrinking at an average rate of 5 percent a year for over a decade to go to a flourishing seven-day-a-week program church, "but I know enough to get off the ship when everyone can see it's sinking.