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:: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 ::

A Must-Read for Church Leaders

This article is from a Minneapolis alternative newspaper describing the author's foray into a Mpls. megachurch. She compares her experience to that of Alice in Wonderland - very real, yet simultaneously nonsense.

It is really interesting to me how contemporary megachurch assumptions of what non-believers need don't line up with this author's viewpoint. I suppose this doesn't surprise me; I've been saying this myself in one form or another for a while.

She wasn't scared off by a firebrand preacher - no! Not that! I think she took issue with something dramatically different: its busyness. She didn't like it when she discovered that it looked like a shopping mall inside.

I see this article as yet another voice we're ignoring. We've gotta listen.

Link via http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/ through this post on http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/

:: Matt 12/07/2004 01:44:00 PM :: permalink :: ::
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