We attend one of those "mega churches" but mega churches don't start out that way. Ours started as a small group meeting in a rented hall, then a warehouse, then a storefront, and now a former Walmart.
Mega-churches don't "pop up" out of the blue with large attendances, they grow in numbers just like any other church.
And many mega-churches have planted other churches in neighboring communities just to cope with the growth.
Another reason these churches are popping up in "increasing" numbers just again highlights the changing demographics of our country...the moral values voter.
Lakewood had quadrupled in the last five years. It's hard for me to see how Christianity is dying because it's going great guns here in the south. But I realize more and more communists and liberals are choosing hell.