Tesco Church

A bit of thinking has been going on about what is sometimes called Tesco Church. Others use equivalents such as Ikea Church. The question is as to whether Tesco (or Ikea) provides us with a model for how to do church. The point is made that the opening of the big Tesco Superstore has the inevitable effect of causing smaller local businesses to close. Would we be better doing church that way? If we had very many fewer churches, but made the ones that remained 'mega-churches', would that have more of an impact? Of course, it might - but I'm doubtful about this one - perhaps partly because, at the moment, most of my visits to Tesco are to our local Tesco Express, limited in range, but high on convenience. And I'm not convinced that that isn't a better model for church - 'church express' rather than 'church out-of-town superstore'.