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[The Christian Post] 15 Sep 2008--Attendance numbers at America's megachurches continue to grow, and at very fast rates, according to the latest research on the country's largest churches.
Protestant congregations that already have at least 2,000 people in a typical weekend had an average rate of growth for five years of around 50 percent. And over 20 percent of megachurches experienced an increase of 100 percent. Slightly more than 10 percent of the churches showed stagnation or decline.
The findings come from a study entitled "Changes in American Megachurches: Tracing Eight Years of Growth and Innovation in the Nation's largest-Attendance Congregations," which was released Friday.
The continuous growth in the size of megachurches comes as no surprise as they have shown increasing numbers over the last eight years.
But despite the bigger congregations, megachurches have not expanded their sanctuaries to accommodate the larger flocks.
Megachurches are "getting bigger without getting bigger," commented Warren Bird, co-author of the study.
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