Trends and fads will always come and go. Diets, new forms of exercise, the newest fashions and places to go will change continually to conform to a larger demographic. In case you haven't heard, the latest trend is "alternative worship."
Differing from the stuffy, three-piece suit type of Sunday service, alternative worship, or "postmodern" churches are taking hold across the United States. These new churches are the answer to the "mega-church" boom in the 1980s and '90s. They offer a new way to worship that is more laidback, geared to a younger generation in their 20s and 30s that often weren't raised in church.
In these emerging churches you will find everything from a coffeehouse-like atmosphere, complete with couches and a band that plays spiritual mood music with a "come as you are" rule, to something more like a "house party" approach, supplemented by wine and pastries instead of grape...
