[Texas_Jarhead]

I think it's telling that Lakewood Church's new home has two big signs on the building. One says "Lakewood Church" and the other says "Joel Osteen Ministries" but no where will you see a Cross. If it were not for the words "church" and "ministries" one would never know that it is a place of worship.

[ConservativeDude]

"but no where will you see a Cross..."

Wouldn't that be "churchy", old-fashioned and divisive?

(To be fair...I do think that Lakewood is truly in a category of its own....it is not fair to lump it in with other megachurches....I think you could argue that Lakewood is effectively post-Christian....the other megachurches aren't post-Christian, they have just given too much over to consumerism culture...that is my opinion anyway, but I would be interested in anyone's opinion who has deep knowledge of LW AND others)