why doesn't louisville just use Southeast Christian Church as a Stadium? lol

I know what you're saying - the day of the communtiy based church is ending, in fact it is pretty much day in more affluent suburban areas where the concept of community is alien. Atlanta has a couple of those outside the perimeter, one of them from the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, who abandoned Midtown 10 years ago & abandoned Downtown over 50 years ago.

Where the Houston Rockets use to play is turning into a church. Lakewood.

I use to live down the street from First Baptist... it looks like they took an old big box distribution center and added a few architectural frills on it to turn it into a church. They thing has loading docks for semis! It's crazy.

But this is all part of the suburban way of life. Bigger is better and everything must be in its own pod. I wonder how many people can walk to any of these megachurches? Though I do have to give some of them credit for building retirement homes on or near the property. Too bad the design is such that they still have to run buses between the retirement home and the church to get them past the sea of parking. Not all old folks are unable to walk short distances and I'm sure they would like to be able to walk to church if they could.

Soulbrotha said:

how many homeless people do ya'll think this church can hold?

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^Fairly trite response.

Think that place has suites, club seating, etc.?

I wonder what it costs to sit close-down, upfront at courtside. lol

sleepy said:

Think that place has suites, club seating, etc.?

I wonder what it costs to sit close-down, upfront at courtside. lol

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I'm sure the more you give the closer you get to sit. After all, it looks like a sports arena. Why would anyone want to worship in a place like that?

You should check out Calvary church in Charlotte, right off hwy 51. Biggest damn pink church I have ever seen.

WalChurch.

That looks about the size of that baptist church on Stuebner Airline in Spring. The thing looks like the world's biggest High-School.

CLTfanatic said:

You should check out Calvary church in Charlotte, right off hwy 51. Biggest damn pink church I have ever seen.

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I've seen it. The back side is made out of cinderblocks or something like that. They must have run out of money.

Wow, and I thought University Park on Beatties Ford was big....I've seen the outside of Calvary but not the inside. Huge.

there is a church in plano about that big....

it has basketball courts, and everything in between.

There's a megachurch in Orlando that has a coffeeshop, in the lobby, called 'Holy Grounds'.

Southeast Christian Church in Louisville is the 3rd largest sanctuary in the United States. The place seats somewhere near 10,000 people. Plus, the church has two or three other "chapels" that are used for the weekday masses. Also there are basketball, racquetball, and volleyball courts in the gym that is also attached to the church. The place is out of control, I have never seen a church campus so big!

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I've seen it. The back side is made out of cinderblocks or something like that. They must have run out of money.

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That's not surprising. Just like McMansions with impressive fronts but cheap siding on the back and sides, these building are meant to make superficial impression rather than be a great work of architecture. Sadly, most buildings of the late 20th and early 21st century in the US are all about appearing to be something they're not rather than spending the money and effort on being the real thing. You have to wonder what future generations will patern their architecture on since this generation is obsessed with mocking up facades that merely simulate a particular style.

Brad:

Is the Wal-Church a place to go to McWorship?

AubieTurtle said:

Brad:

Is the Wal-Church a place to go to McWorship?

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It's built on the golden rule that due to quantity, the savings are passed to the consumer...

(that & the bibles are manufactured at sweat shops in thailand)

Egad, we're getting one of these monuments to religious greed here in Tampa, where Idlewild Baptist is working on its new complex, whose cost will exceed $100m by a considerable amount (I forget the exact figure.

Indeed, I wonder how many good deeds could have been done with those tithes, were it not for ego.