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Lakewood Church: Power House of the Lord

By AAN Staff
april 9, 2002  10:10 am
Lakewood Church: Power House of the Lord
The Lakewood Church service is a glorious spectacle of marketing genius, a happy marriage of television know-how, motivational speaking and Jesus, Houston Press reporter Jennifer Mathieu writes. At a time when mainline Protestant churches are hemorrhaging members and are desperate to understand why, this self-described charismatic, nondenominational congregation has grown so rapidly since Joel Osteen took over that church leaders have ambitious plans to move the whole operation into Compaq Center in 2003. Some business and city government leaders aren't too happy about turning the public arena into a church, so Lakewood has come under a level of scrutiny that it is unaccustomed to, given that it has gone out of its way to avoid political involvement.
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