Saturday, September 30, 2017

What Matt Chandler and Tim Keller’s Churches’ Transitions Mean for the Multisite Movement [Podcast]


After the influential Texas and New York bodies announce that their campuses are becoming autonomous, what’s next?

Has one of the biggest trends in evangelical churches been eclipsed by a new one? Multisite congregations number more than 5,000 and researchers say this trend is as ubiquitous as the megachurch movement was 20 years ago.

The Village Church, one of Texas’ largest multisite congregations, announced this week that it would be transitioning into five distinct congregations over the next five years. This news comes several years after its Denton location became an independent congregation “In part, Denton leaders and members didn’t want to build their strategy on the Matt Chandler brand,” CT reported in 2015. Listen Now

Related Articles:
Matt Chandler’s Village Church Ends Multisite Era
The Village Church Transition: Ushering in the End of the Megachurch Era?

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