Episode 18 of B.Boomer Unleashed, The Evolution of the Church: Enter the Mega Church of the 1970s Part 1 discusses the entry of the Protestant Mega Church. For the purpose of discussion, we define Mega Church as any Protestant Church with a membership of 2,000 or more. We discuss how we have gone from less than a dozen Mega Churches in the early 70s to nearly 750 today. We lay the background and provide the early history of development in these churches with particular emphasis on early Baptist Mega Churches. We discuss the first ingredient in the recipe for success in the early Mega Church, and how the Baby Boomers played an important role in this phenomenon. In follow-up episodes, we will move through the remaining ingredients for success, and expand our discussion to Televangelists, Mega Money Churches, and how far we've departed from the Local Community Church that we knew growing up in the 50s and 60s. We'll also discuss how one of the pioneer Televangelists, Bishop Pike, may have been the catalyst that propelled mainline Protestant Churches to capitalize on the groundwork he laid in the early days of religious broadcasting. Each remaining episode in this series builds on information provided in the preceding episodes. We ask you to listen to Episode 18 of B.Boomer Unleashed and every episode as we discuss this important topic.
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