Definition of megachurch in English:
megachurch
nounˈmɛɡətʃəːtʃˈmeɡəCHərCH
US A church with an unusually large congregation, typically one preaching a conservative or evangelical form of Christianity.
Example sentencesExamples
- Tonight, we will hear from the former volunteer at Haggard megachurch.
- In Dallas, a thousand people is not a megachurch.
- The new face of American evangelicalism is not confined to the mega-churches.
- I think a lot of the controversy comes from people just wanting to pick on megachurches.
- The number of Protestant megachurches has risen from just 50 in 1980 to nearly 900 now.
- Nothing came to symbolise the power of the evangelical movement more than the rise of mega-churches, especially in staunchly Republican areas.
- Contrary to popular opinion, not all evangelicals attend mega-churches.
- They were however, rarely wealthy, in contrast to the megachurches of today.
- The pictures of the evangelical megachurches remind me of Las Vegas gambling palaces.
- They were really making fun of the people in the churches, in the tents, in the megachurches.
- In the northern Dallas suburb of Prosper, a new mega-church has just opened.
- The rapid growth of megachurches on the United States landscape shows very little sign of diminishing.
- I want to put our rural congregations up against the megachurch.
- Combining a couple of local megachurches would exceed the entire diocese membership of about 37,000.
- Water rises past the windows of a mega-church, where thousands of members worshiped.
- The average total annual income of the megachurches in the study for 1999 was 4.8 million dollars.
- Yet enough evangelicals to fill a couple of hundred megachurches have read them.
- Ninety-five percent of megachurches have a weekly Sunday school program.
- Sixty percent of megachurches always or often have altar calls in their services.
- An Episcopalian, Miller is an outsider to the megachurch movement.