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Article Excerpt San Antonio | October 7, 2007
Having grown up in the Church of Christ, I have been interested in observing, at a modest distance, the differences that have evolved over the years between the smalltown churches of my youth (similar to the Oak Hill Church of Christ in Luling, which I reviewed in July 2006) and "seeker friendly" megachurches such as San Antonio's Oak Hills Church, by lineage a Church of Christ but one that has moved sufficiently far from its roots to have dropped the name. With a weekly attendance of approximately 5,500, Oak Hills, located at the northwest edge of San Antonio on Interstate 10, is one of the state's largest congregations and led by one of its best-known preachers, Max Lucado.
After following several corridors one Sunday--past offices, nurseries, a coffee shop, and the UpWords bookstore--my wife and I found the elevator and stairs to the second-level worship center. If the banners hanging from the rafters of this large multifunctional space had road "State AAAA Champs, 2005" instead of "The Holy Spirit, Our Power" and "The Church, God's Battalion," one might well have assumed that...
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