How to Use megachurch in a Sentence

megachurch

noun
  • The day would end up melding politics and megachurch.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a golf course nearby, a megachurch and The Home Depot.
    — Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Ballesteros is on hand for when West joins Joel Osteen on stage at a megachurch and performs in a prison.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Greene, meanwhile, had recently been baptized at an Atlanta-area megachurch.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • His church hasn't publicly released membership numbers, but many in the media have described it as a megachurch.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • These live versions dynamite that meditative hollow or expand it to the size of a megachurch.
    — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • By 2021, nonprofit Hope City Live bought the site in a $20 million plan to build a megachurch.
    — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Hamilton’s campaign has reported raising more than $2 million since the popular megachurch pastor launched his bid in late April.
    — Matthew Kelly updated June 7, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
  • But the Stanford graduate practically bounced into the conference room, eager to discuss his bold new megachurch satire.
    — Jessica Zack, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Morris is the founder of Gateway Church, a multi-site megachurch based in Texas with one of the largest evangelical congregations in the state.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Chadwick had spent 39 years at Forest Hill Church, helping transform a once-modest congregation into a megachurch.
    — Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • Enter Caleb Samuel — a flashy, social media–famous preacher’s kid with three million followers, a fast car, and a complicated relationship with his megachurch dynasty.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The pastor of multicampus Triumph megachurch rented the opulent Fox Theatre and packed it with 4,000 of his closest friends and parishioners.
    — M.l. Elrick, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Bieber, an artist who seems to love weed and megachurch culture with the same passion and who has long discussed his faith in and out of music, doesn’t scan on record as the demure, denial-of-gratification Christian that rumors of an attachment to a cult imply.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But something is noticeably different in this east Texas town, where the wives of a conservative gubernatorial candidate, county sheriff and local megachurch reverend carry guns in their handbags.
    — Trish Bendix, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The Southlake megachurch and its attorneys want to use someone from the American Arbitration Association or a district judge to settle the matter.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, the leaders — including Houston’s son, Brian Houston, the founder of the global megachurch Hillsong — allowed the pastor to quietly retire.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The leader of a conservative Fort Worth megachurch visited Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in jail and says God has forgiven the disgraced pastor.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The megachurch, which finished a $130 million renovation in 2013 and now occupies six city blocks, currently boasts 16,000 members.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • World Outreach Church, a Murfreesboro megachurch, hosted the second-ever Culture & Christianity Conference.
    — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The service at the House of Hope, a megachurch on Chicago's South Side, is drawing a roster of luminaries to help Jackson's family observe a homegoing for the late civil rights leader.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The race was reshaped in late April when popular Johnson County megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton launched his campaign as a Democrat after openly exploring an independent bid.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
  • The two weeks of events will wrap up next week with a large celebration of life gathering at a Chicago megachurch and finally, home-going services at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The two weeks of events will wrap up next week with a large celebration of life gathering at a Chicago megachurch and finally, homegoing services at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The man in a blue Hawaiian shirt paced up and down the line of fellow protesters outside the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, shouting into a megaphone with the fervor of someone leading the sermon at a megachurch.
    — Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Elevation Church, the evangelical, nondenominational megachurch led by Pastor Steven Furtick, recently announced its plan to start its own college program in 2026.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 18 Dec. 2025
  • After South Carolina, Jackson will be returned to Chicago for a large celebration of life gathering at a megachurch and the final homegoing services at the headquarters of Rainbow PUSH.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • A week of services for the civil rights leader included lying in repose at Rainbow PUSH headquarters, lying in state at the South Carolina state Capitol, and a Friday homegoing service at House of Hope megachurch.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Charlie Kirk’s wife forgives suspect Those close to Kirk prayed and the floors at the home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals shook from the bass of Christian rock bands, as the memorial started with the feel of a megachurch service before veering into something more akin to a political rally.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Morris, the North Texas megachurch’s former senior pastor, was seeking a $1 million one-time payment, and annual payments of $600,000 to $800,000 for the rest of his and his wife, Debbie’s, lives, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2026

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