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...Protestantism in the U.S. has always been the domain of small, cozy congregations with 100 to 300 members; Catholic parishes are often large, but few Protestant churches have ever reached the 1,000-member point. Now, rapidly and dramatically, that pattern is changing with the rise of superchurches that boast mammoth memberships and facilities to match. Forty-three Protestant congregations in the U.S. claim 5,000 or more Sunday worshipers, says John N. Vaughan of Missouri's Southwest Baptist University in his Church Growth Today newsletter. Moreover, 116 congregations in 28 states say their attendance jumped by 300 or more...
The superchurch, a mall-size, high-profile house of worship, is the natural counterpart of the super-supermarket and the multiplex cinema. Brimming with self-confidence, these congregations -- many of them independent of established Protestant denominations -- have an increasing edge in the competitive marketplace of U.S. religion and an inexorable...
...modest surroundings. Still, the superchurches have come to represent something new and powerful in most metropolitan areas. Calvary Chapel has even cloned itself, creating 370 daughter congregations across the U.S. Experts expect to see more of these Christian emporiums -- and a consequent permanent alteration in the ecology of American Protestantism...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: John N. Vaughan, Church Growth Today newsletter, figures for 1989-90}]CAPTION: Biggest U.S. Protestant Congregations