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What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement. Critiquing the worst excesses of the movement while desiring for the growth of God’s kingdom, this work provides a much needed antidote for the idea that God cares only about the size of an individual church.

mall than in a bar or a nightclub. My own view lies with the former, but both reactions missed a deeper point: The problem is not the presence of a church in a mall but the presence of the mall in the church. The natural association of the megamall and the three-thousand-member megachurch was precisely what the pastors of Wooddale Church had in mind. The symbolism was perfect: Modern megachurches have been built on the philosophical and structural pattern of America’s recent shopping malls, which,
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