Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds to Churches
The sudden crush of worshipers packing the small evangelical Shelter Rock Church in Manhasset, New York - a Long Island town of yacht clubs and hedge fund managers - forced the pastor to set up an overflow room with closed-circuit TV and 100 folding chairs, which have been filled for six consecutive Sundays.
In Seattle, the Mars Hill Church, one of the fastest-growing evangelical churches in the country, grew to 7,000 members this fall, up 1,000 ...
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A failure to groud ourselves in reality got us into this mess in the first place. It pains and wearies me to see countless more seek a superstitious solution to their very real problems. I'm looking forward to an era of personal responsibility and stunning scientific enlightenment, however organizations such as these smell a great business opportunity and will feed off the same weakness that troubles this country today.