Word: megachurch
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Wade Clark Roof, author of Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion, says Saddleback's megachurch ministry appeals to the notion that size equals success. "We're told that [his philosophy] not only does something for you in the sense of giving your life meaning but it also makes you happy materially, religiously and spiritually," Roof says. "What Rick is marketing is a kind of American religious ideology that conflates growth with salvation...
Saddleback has become a bustling megachurch, with an annual operating budget of more than $19 million, and now sits on an immaculate 120-acre campus, designed by some of the folks who planned Disney's theme parks, in the placid Orange County community of Lake Forest, 65 miles south of Los Angeles. On weekends the 15,000 members and about 5,000 visitors choose from services at six different times and 10 different venues around the campus--some with live preachers, some on closed-circuit TV--offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns...
Jakes is one of religion's most prodigious polymaths. His books, starting with his breakthrough inspirational volume Woman, Thou Art Loosed!, have sold in the millions. His 26,000-member Potter's House megachurch in South Dallas drew George W. Bush and Al Gore prior to the 2000 election. Jakes is a Grammy-nominated gospel singer and has a deal with Hallmark for a line of "Loose Your Spirit" inspirational greeting cards. He preaches regularly to millions on both Black Entertainment Television and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Yet millions more have never heard of him. When they do, new enthusiasts...
...million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed. Jakes, a regular on two TV networks (TBN and BET), has generated a stream of other novel gambits. He has cut a Grammy-nominated gospel album, beamed his sermons by satellite into prisons in 15 states and built a $32 million megachurch in a depressed part of Dallas. Al Gore, Pat Robertson and Coretta Scott King are among his fans. George W. Bush calls Jakes' social programs models for a church-state partnership...
...grandfather was an Episcopal minister, and his father prayed twice daily--on his knees. Despite McCain's Episcopal heritage, however, the service he attends--"every time he's in town; John is faithful in worship," says Yeary--is the 9 a.m. Sunday "contemporary" gathering at North Phoenix Baptist. The megachurch is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. More moderate than Bob Jones University, the S.B.C. is still scripturally and socially conservative. One prominent member is McCain target Jerry Falwell...