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A megachurch is a church with a very large membership that also offers a variety of educational and social activities. Most megachurches are Protestant , and particularly Evangelical , although the word denotes a type of organization, not a denomination.
The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch. [ 4 ] As the term megachurch in common parlance refers to Protestant congregations; although there are some Catholic parishes which would meet the criteria ...
Robert Morris, founding pastor of the megachurch Gateway, delivers a sermon at the church in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times / Redux Pictures)
This list of the largest evangelical megachurches contains evangelical Christian megachurches by weekly attendance. Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism, are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism.
This time, the man involved had gone on to lead one of America’s largest megachurches. Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil Skip to ...
Morris later founded Gateway Church in 2000, and grew it into one of the largest evangelical churches in the country. The church said on social media earlier this week that the board of elders had ...
Watermark Community Church is a nondenominational evangelical megachurch based in Dallas, Texas. Watermark was founded in November 7, 1999 with an outward-focused ministry that sought to minister to "the unchurched, dechurched, dead-churched and unmoved."
The son of a Texas megachurch pastor, who abruptly resigned this month due to “sin,” addressed his father’s decision to step down, emphasizing his family knew “no more, no less” about ...