Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.