The MegaMellow Message?

Yesterday on the FM I heard a radio preacher, I can't remember his name, suggest something like, "It makes you wonder how the message is being mellowed in megachurches to attract such big numbers."

Diggity diggity then, radio dog: did ya forget that no church ever started out being a megachurch?

Why is it so tempting, and so easy, for "traditional" churches to assume that "megachurches" must be "mellowing down the message" ... assuming a priori that otherwise, megachurches wouldn't reach so many people for Christ? Why do critics keep trying to limit God and squeeze him down to fit their convenient little church-in-a-box?

A church that's not adding seats is a church that's stopped reaching people for Christ. Period.

This question could be posed instead: "It makes you wonder why traditional Me-First churches are alienating people from God by keeping the Gospel of Jesus Christ all to themselves."

So what's the biggest difference between a scripturally-based "megachurch" and the scripturally-based church down the street?

A megachurch has more seats.