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Change is coming to American megachurches—those behemoths for believers that now dot the religious landscape.
There are more participants in megachurch worship than ever.
“Last weekend 1 in 10 adults and children who went to a Protestant church went to a megachurch—about 5 million people,” said Warren Bird, director of research for Leadership Network and co-author of a megachurch study released Wednesday.
But individual attendance is down to once or twice a month—or less.
westernrecorder.org/633.article“They think ‘regular attendance’ is ‘I get there when I can,’” said the second co-author, sociologist Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. The study examines megachurches (2,000 people in weekend attendance is the basic qualifier) in comparison with other, smaller congregations.