California Christians Worship In A Big Way ["Church Lite"?]

LATimes ^ | October 11th 2009

[Steelfish]

You’d be surprised. Many of these “rumba” Pentecostalist/Charismatic Churches in Latin American are poaching on Catholics with an entertainment brand of “Christian Lite.”

[SoCalPol]

San Diego has 5 congressmen.
3 are major Conservative Republicans.

Darrell Issa, Bryan Bilbray and Marine Col. Duncan Hunter

[reagan_fanatic]

If it brings people closer to God, why does it matter what the size of the Church is? My Church is contemporary, and we like modern songs by contemporary Christian artists - no boring organ music, dusty, staid 200 year-old songs or medieval chants. I like it, and I see no point in castigating those who do.

As long as the focus is on Jesus Christ and his gospel, the type of music used or the size of the church is unimportant.

[SoCalPol]

*Liturgy is the “Word of God” sanctified.*

This is Correct be it Catholic, Lutheran or Episcopal.

The mega churches are side shows. The Rock here in
San Diego is in the city area. Former Charger, Miles McPherson is the Pastor with over 12,000 members.

Anyone who leaves a traditional and orthodox form of worship
for the side shows was never rooted in the orthodox to begin with.

[bboop]

I did that too. Am not much of a joiner, and I was in the music ministry, so we had our own group. I kind of liked the anonymity of the larger church, and I really loved all the good teaching about how to live a Christian life.

[Happyinmygarden]

“Do you have a citation for that claim?”

Rick Warren announced it clearly and concisely from the pulpit one Sunday about two months ago. I was surprised to hear it, and as a former Catholic it stuck in my memory. At the same time he announced that a total of 63 different languages are spoken by the members.