New church members are baptized, regardless of their religious past, and led into a life of full commitment to God, with a heavy emphasis on bringing in new recruits. The church had a humble beginning in 1979, when 30 people gathered in a Boston-area living room with founder Kip McKean, a former Church of Christ minister who came to Massachusetts with a plan to create a new kind of church based on his controversial approach of total religious immersion. It quickly attracted a following. And it gives security to people who live in an insecure world. It has since been sanctioned there.
Few churches have physical buildings.
Instead, like the Nashville Church, they rent space in schools, public auditoriums and conference centers where they set up elaborate stages and sound systems. Their hugest expense goes into personnel, their evangelists who are their mission outreaches. From an organizational standpoint, it's a great idea. You put your money into people who get more people. Bible studies don't just present church teachings, she said, but quash skepticism through high-pressure methods that allow only the church's answer to Biblical questions.