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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...

God, and Christianity by inference, defies categorization and predictability. The moment we begin to program or “do” church in any fashion that removes the ability for the unpredictable to happen, our expectations of predictability will, in fact, be met. We are not arguing for chaos in congregations, as Scripture is rather clear: “But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner” (1 Cor. 14:40). That being said, our services and church structures may actually reveal that we have forgotten