megachurch

[meg-uh-church]

noun

1. an independent church with a very large membership in regular attendance, focusing on an evangelical or conservative Christian theology and offering a variety of educational and social activities.

megachurch

/ ˈmɛɡəˌtʃɜːtʃ /

noun

1. a church, usually Protestant, with a very large congregation, typically housed in a complex offering sophisticated multimedia presentations and a range of secular facilities and services

Example Sentences

The legislator was teaching a section of Campaign University, a series of online lessons he and others associated with Fort Worth-based megachurch Mercy Culture created to raise up so-called “spirit-led candidates.”

Read more on Salon

They are Florida’s nondenominational Revive Church and Hawaii’s Pentecostal megachurch King’s Maui, according to Schatzline’s social media posts.

Read more on Salon

He deployed one of his signature looks—wide-eyed, slightly lunatic—as a father spiraling into personal crisis in the first season of “The White Lotus” and a hapless militia leader in the megachurch comedy “The Righteous Gemstones.”

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

A Texas pastor who founded one of the largest megachurch congregations in the country pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing a girl of 12 in Oklahoma in the 1980s.

Read more on BBC

But the truth is that, for anyone who isn’t already immersed in the aesthetics of the megachurch world, the whole event was unsettling.

Read more on Salon