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Lakewood Church isn't a normal church building. It literally was multi-purpose sports arena (Compaq Center, hosted the Rockets, Areos, and arena football, hosted concerts for ZZ Top, Shakira, Kid Rock, Nelly, AC/DC, Metallica, Prince, Michael Jackson, and many other notable artists) until 2003. So its got more in common in its bones to a sports arena than a typical church.

Also, yes, a giant ultra megachurch like Lakewood might get 45,000 attendees a week. That's usually split between a few services each of which is like 90 minutes long. So like maybe 18k people peak. The average Taylor Swift concert has 72,000 people in the stadium for several hours.

Also, while yes a large church probably has a cafe or something similar, its usually not equipped to provide food for 70,000 people. Nor bathrooms for said 70,000 people, as most people going to the church are once again only there for like 90 minutes instead of several hours.




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