Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris for this

cell phone travel edition. I have a request actually two requests to talk about a

video called Mega Churchianity. So I really quickly want to give you my reaction to this video. It's

about I don't know over 200,000 views on YouTube and the premise seems to be

that there's this insider group of elites who really form a guild. They try to benefit themselves and

membership in the guild confers monetary rewards as well as just perks and

status and and so this all came about as a result of the rise of the mega church model and that's a consolidation model where the churches now run more like a business than a church and I think there's so much to say about this that is in support of that particular narrative because we all know something exists that some call Big Eva I call it the evangelical

industrial complex you can call it a guild but it's really an interconnected often

interwoven and interdependent group of organizations and individuals and missions organizations and

denominations and publishing houses and conferences and they all kind of form a

web in which they support one another.

They aren't allowed to criticize one another and if they do criticize that criticism

has to have a limit.

It can't be too much. It must be mild. And that's why I think there's

been reluctance even among organizations that many of you would consider to be

very conservative against social justice. I mean they're they're fighting the good fight but if you

really think about it how much have they actually said about false teaching in

organizations that perhaps members of their church have been impacted by or listen to even now or read.

They're very reluctant to say anything to harsh sounding.

That's where the tone issue comes in and the winsomeness and all this.

It's not so much, I mean it is about the world,

but it's not just about the world and what the world thinks of us

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