Appeal Quote by Rodney Stark

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and…

— Mazo de la Roche

Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as…

— Tahl Raz

“These mega-churches are springing up all over the country—especially in the suburbs of large cities. And they all follow the same formula: A charismatic,…

— Robert Burton Robinson

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of…

— Sinclair Lewis

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

— John C. Maxwell

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

— Rodney Stark

“If we’re going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that’s trending post-Christian, we must rethink our…

— Andy Stanley

“One reason for the popularity of music with a beat is that, once public schools began to drop music from their curriculum, people found…

— Brian A. Wren

There is... a greater sense of divine purpose when we're playing at all-Christian rock shows. In clubs or bars, we know that the audience…

— Sonny Sandoval

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of…

— Danny Gokey

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

— Mignon McLaughlin