Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
Life Church's parent, Metro Church, was notorious for the pastor saying "we need $150,000 more in today's offering. Bow your heads and let me see 10 people raise their hands to give 15K today". I'm not making that up.
Metrochurch was not Lifechurch's parent — not in the least. Lifechurch existed separately from Metrochurch and was growing significantly completely independent of Metrochurch before the two churches merged. Metrochurch's heritage, and particularly of that first pastor (after which two completely different pastors served subsequently), has never been reflected in Lifechurch.

Note: I am not a member of Lifechurch. I was a member of Metrochurch at the time of the merger and moved on to a new church a few months after the merger.