Talk about the multisite Mega Church and you will get A LOT of STRONG opinions. Some think the multisite mega church is a scam. Others think it is great. Some think the mega church is evil, while others love it and believe it's the answer to growing the church in North America. A bevy of recent mega church scandals have only added to the confusion and frustration.

In this episode of the Church Disrupted Podcast, Jeff Cochran and Vicki May take a deep dive look into the good, bad, and ugly of the multi-site megachurch and discuss what they see happening with this movement in the future.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:56 - Thank You's!
03:10 - What is the Multisite Mega Church?
05:45 - How the Multisite Mega Church took root in North America
10:58 - Common Ways People think about the Mega Church
12:11 - Thanking Our Podcast Partners!
15:01 - Common Ways People think about the Mega Church (Continued)
20:25 - Pastoral Care and Volunteer Burnout Concerns
25:11 - The unintended consequence of the multisite mega church
36:44 - How MEGA is the Multisite Mega Church (discipleship concerns in big churches)
52:32 - A cookie cutter approach, performing over preaching, and ghostwritten sermons
01:04:57 - Good things we see in the Multisite Mega Church
01:10:04 - Our Big Concerns About the Multisite Mega Church Today
01:29:14 - Mean and Arrogant Christian Responses To church hurt, spiritual abuse, and sin in the church.
01:37:21 - Financial Concerns in the Multisite Mega Church
01:41:51 - Our BIGGEST CONCERN with the MultiSite Mega Church!
01:48:30 - The Political Entanglement Problem
01:50:24 - Diversity issues in the mega church
01:52:37 - Celebrity culture in the multisite mega church
01:56:18 - Thinking about the Future of the Church
02:02:44 - Leaving with both Hope an Trepidation...
02:05:02 - Is the Multisite Mega Church a Failed Experiment? (Our Answer)