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July 27, 2005

Mega Churches: Act of God or Marketing?

A recent article looks at mega churches and asks why they're growing. Is it God, as most of the churches would say, or is it marketing, like the academics say? While the article never gives much of an answer, it does spend most of the time looking at mega church marketing efforts.

Too bad the article never suggests that marketing could be one of any number of tools God could use to grow the church.

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at July 27, 2005 7:23 PM

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