Mega See, Mega Do

Old and busted: Canceling church on Christmas Day. New hotness: Holding church ‘online’ on the Sunday after Christmas.

For an ostensive Lutheran church, this is especially sad, given that December 28, 2025 was not only the Lord’s Day, the 4th Day of Christmas, but also the Feast of the Holy Innocents. But hey, it’s a lot of trouble to attend church on Sunday. We already got the religion thing out of the way this week. So we’ll just skip it. That’s what all the other megas are doing. Who cares about martyrs anyway?

If the price of being a megachurch is that Sunday services are just too much of a hassle to make it worth one’s while, maybe it’s time to hit those organizational management books again and rethink the optimal size of one’s enterprise.

And these are the people who think they should have more influence in our church body, how to “do evangelism” and how to train pastors. Really? Maybe the departed saints and martyrs of the church should have a bigger say instead of the megachurch “leaders” who never set aside a day to honor any of them. Maybe our polity should rather reflect the “democracy of the dead.”

How have we gotten to the point where churches are closed on a Sunday? Do they even know how to blush? And just who is walking together with whom?

A Baptist Mega

An LCMS mega