American evangelicals love megachurches. Today there are about 1,750 megachurches in the United States,

and 65% of them are evangelical in their theology. But are these megachurches truly helping

the evangelical movement? Or, as my guest today suggests,

are they destroying it? Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth

and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's. And this is part two of my podcast on Jesus versus

evangelicals with Dr. Constantine Campbell, author of the book by that name.

And if you miss part one, I encourage you to go back and listen to that now.

In it, we discussed why so many things evangelicalism is known for today, like seeking political

power and judging sinners, are the exact opposite of what Jesus modeled. And in part two, Dr. Campbell

critiques the megachurch movement. Many see these huge megachurches with big buildings, large congregations,

and massive budgets as success stories. But using the metric of making disciples, these megachurches

fall woefully short. We'll also look at evangelicalism,

so-called lunatic fringe, the prosperity preachers and proponents of Christian nationalism

that at one point would not have been accepted by the evangelical community. But increasingly,

these leaders are going mainstream despite their heretical gospels.

We'll dive back into my interview in just a minute.

We'll get back to my interview with Dr. Campbell in just a minute.

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