A Tale of Two Megachurches – When Justin met Joel Osteen & Rob Bell

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🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this podcast-only edition of the programme, Justin Brierley delves into the archives to air a radio documentary which was first broadcast in 2009. He and his family went on a US road trip to visit two megachurches and meet their pastors. Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas is the largest church in America with over 40,000 in attendance each week. TV pastor Joel Osteen broadcasts his message of health, wealth and positivity to thousands more every week. They also visited another large (but very different) church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mars Hill Bible Church, pastored at the time by Rob Bell, was seen as a thriving example of the so-called ‘emerging’ church. The programme compares and contrasts the two different churches and their leaders. Justin and his wife Lucy share their thoughts on the experience and what the UK can learn from the American example. For Unbelievable? The Conference 2016: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable2016 To donate to Premier Christian Radio’s ‘Extend The Hope’ appeal: http://www.premier.org.uk/donate For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to a podcast special of Unbelievable. I'm Justin Briley the host of the program that is the home of apologetics debate and theological discussion,
0:39.6	but there's no unbelievable radio show on Premier Christian Radio this weekend because we're making space
0:44.9	for our extend the hope fundraising appeal. But I never like to leave the podcast feed and website
0:50.3	devoid of any episode of something interesting. So I'm dusting off a documentary
0:55.1	from the archives that I made some time ago but which we've never played out on
0:59.2	unbelievable. So I hope you'll enjoy that and I will introduce that to you in a moment's time.
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