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Franchising McChurch: Feeding Our Obsession with Easy Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

We live in a fast-food nation, where the service is efficient, the products are peer-tested, and size is king. And this consumer-driven approach is seeping into the church. Across the country, churches are creating entertaining, pop culture-savvy services that feel more market-driven than ministry. On the menu? A proven blend of dynamic music, high-tech dazzle, and topical teachings. And just...

sing hymn number 118 on Easter!” (Translation: We have been here much longer than you, and if you value your job, you will modify your behavior to bring it in line with our expectations, or next Easter will be your last Sunday, pending no further shenanigans on your part between now and then!) Unknowingly, as I planned the Easter service, I violated the predictability this woman and much of the congregation had come to know. To me, it was just a song. To the elderly portion of our congregation, that