There are 7,000 churches in Houston with average membership of 280 per.
Neither Lakewood nor Second Baptist Church of Houston have anything remotely close to a monopoly.
I swear, at times it seems that every shopping center in Houston has a storefront church.
I work for an airline. One of my jobs is to meet the plane. It is common for seat cusions to have to be replaced because passengers pee in the seats. The liquid in Mrs. Osteens seat was very likely urine. There are also a lot of bitchy flight attendants. I do not blame her at all for not sitting in that seat. I also believe that given the number of trips they make for speaking engagements, they very likely are elite members and would have their tickets automatically upgraded to 1st Class by the airline.
"I swear, at times it seems that every shopping center in Houston has a storefront church.
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I thought all the churches were closed. Shoot, from some of the messages here on FR, you'd think there weren't any more churches left, with the attack on Christianity so big.