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As a pioneer of the megachurch movement, Rick Warren looked to translate traditional evangelical messages to a wider audience.

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The Hartford Institute For Religion Research defines a megachurch as a Protestant congregation with sustained weekly attendance above 2, 000.

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Jane Clementi is active in the local Grace Church, which is affiliated with Willow Creek, the evangelical megachurch near Chicago.

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The third force helping to revive old-fashioned civic life is religion, and one sort of religious organisation in particular, the megachurch.

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Christ Church Pentecostal (CCP) is what is known as a megachurch.

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But whoever picked the music for the inaugural ceremony itself--modern megachurch hymns, music that sounds like what they'd use for the quiet middle section of a Pixar animated film--was .

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Media has helped spread the message, particularly for Lakewood Church, the largest megachurch in the U.S. In 1981, Joel Osteen , son of then-pastor Joe Osteen , quit college to set up his father's television ministry.

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