This Sunday we continued our conversation about the church and how it was designed to work. With the help of a summary of the church Luke offers in Acts 2, we saw that the church was designed to rest on four pillars. Keep reading to see what those were and what we need to do about them.
While there have been very large churches at various times and in various places throughout the history of the church, the megachurch movement in this country began in the 1980s. One of the first churches that was a part of this movement and in many ways came to define it, was Willow Creek Community Church. Willow Creek was founded by Bill Hybels. It started as a youth ministry meeting in an old theater in 1975 in Chicago, but under Hybels’ visionary leadership it quickly became the largest church in the country. Today it averages 26,000 people a weekend. It’s main sanctuary seats just over 7,000 people. Read the rest…
The Nexus 