Megachurches rose in prominence in the late 1980s, borrowing models less from seminary manuals than from Disney (on crowd management) and big-box stores (with their greeters and acres of parking).
Some predicted the trend would fade with the aging of the baby boomers who started it, but there's no sign of that yet.
"Many of the fastest-growing, largest and newest megachurches are full of people under 35 years old," according to a report, "Megachurches Today 2005," by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Dallas-based Leadership Network, a church consulting group....