The Mega-Church Tradeoff - Relational Churches and Weekly Communion

Without question, the most important religious trend of the last ten years has been the massive exponential increase in mega-churches corresponding with the massive exponential decrease in small churches. Hmmm…is this a big coincidence? American religion has become far less relational and embraced the anonymity of bigness. Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner talk about fake community, fake relational life, and stiff churches. What would make for a truly relational church where people give their lives for each other? This conversation ends with a brief discussion on relational churches that participate in weekly, relational communion. Relationships are merely the context in which agape love can operate.