The Walnut Grove Church vs. the MegaChurch
St. John 4: 10-14, 21-24 When I was a little boy growing up in the 1970's, I loved the show "Little House on the Prairie." Based on the true stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder during the 1870's and 1880's it depicted life on the small American frontier towns. Besides the Ingalls home one of the most recognizable buildings on the show was the Walnut Grove Church and School. After watching the show for sometime it became clear to me that the small Protestant church had a positive affect on the rugged America frontier by promoting righteousness, simplicity and hard work. Now the megachurch dominates the so-called evangelical landscape and has a negative affect on the community by promoting sin, extravagance and ease. If the small Protestant frontier churches such as the Walnut Grove Church and School could be transported from the past to today, how would it fair vs. the megachurch in a head-to-head match up? How would a Rev. Robert Alden (the pastor of the Walnut...