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Originally Posted by 2020Vision
With the slacking economy, the Prosperity Monsters will be more silent (though that didn't stop them from preaching that mess to dirt poor converts in Africa!), and large-scale, heavily-funded church projects will be fewer. A new Barna Survey says that churches will lose "billions" due to the economy.
Building programs, conferences, crusades and church staff positions will be among the many areas affected.
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?P...naUpdateID=322
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Please don't take this the wrong way...but it might not be a bad thing.
I'm of the opinion that the money could be better used feeding the poor, then paying for a huge sanctuary.
But who am I to judge? I don't even go to church and the only poor I feed is myself.