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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...

On the corner of Wells and Ontario in Chicago you will find a fun little restaurant called Ed Debevic’s. A theme restaurant, Ed’s offers ’50s-style burgers, shakes, and fries with a healthy dash of roadside-diner attitude. The first time I went there, the waiter threw straws and napkins at me and tossed my burger basket onto the table as he harrumphed off to “help” the next customer. As the waitresses jumped onto the soda counter to dance and sing “Y-M-C-A,” I couldn’t help but