I went to one in Palm Springs about 10 years ago that was basically just an aircraft hangar with a concert stage in it

Yikes lol

I don't remember the name

But the design was actually kind of cool as far as they go

Northern or Southern California?

Southern

Ah I probably wouldn't know then

It probably wasn't even a "megachurch" by their standards.

There's a church in my small town that gets like a hundred people on Sunday and I call that a megachurch lol

Typically it needs to resemble a stadium to be considered a genuine megachurch

Ok yeah that's what I mean when I say it

100 people is what the catholic church here pulls on a sunday lol

I wonder if it was one of Francis Chan's, he's planted like a million churches and they usually end up megachurches

I have no idea

It's the church my wife's parents go to

Why would anyone

ANYONE in his right mind

ANYONE who has even the slighest knowledge of the gospel

Go to those places with a purpose beyond witnessing gross perversion?

Honestly they're not all as bad as the Osteen Zone

The message was pretty ok

Some of them are just really big normal prot churches

A big Church, ok

But when, as mentioned, it looks like a stadium

Lol you guys all have a serious issue of conflating aesthetics with morality.

Sometimes they literally are just aircraft hangars with a stage set up, because it's relatively cheap

If I'm wanna witness in a dark stadium with bad music that's my business lol

The Church is meant to be a monument to Our Lord's Heaven on Earth, that is why any Church built before the turn of the 20th Century was built in the most meticulous fashion.

Non-denominational churches tend to prioritize function over form, almost exclusively to their detriment spiritually but financially it makes sense

Glass and Steel, a house to God does not make.

They may as well be Materialists, then, if they refuse to acknowledge to *form* of the divine.

And most megachurches are non denominational

Let me rephrase that, they *are* materialists.

Most modern people are materialists

Seriously

It's a pretty tall claim to imply that you aren't

Not that I would know of course

Materialism is more in and of itself than the love of stuff.

I mean, I wouldn't consider myself one

It's a matter of priorities

When we say materialists, we aren't talking about the sort of people who rush to a Black Friday sale.