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“‘Crazy’ has become a church-growth strategy”

John Fea   |  February 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

Are you a pastor who wants your church to grow? There is a new church-growth formula out there. If you are a pro-Trump, anti-critical race theory, anti-mask, and anti-vaccine pastor your church will grow. It will not grow through evangelism, but through what Moore calls “Crazy.” This is yet another example of the consumer-driven character of American evangelicalism.

I wrote about this briefly in today’s Evangelical Roundup, but it is worth listening to Moore’s conversation with David Brooks:

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Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: church growth, David Brooks, Russell Moore, Trumpism

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