pat loughery

I found this quote today while googling around on church names. This was from the pastor of a church who changed their name from something that was admittedly a bit tired to something newer:

“We describe our church as a shopping mall of spiritual opportunities,” says (the pastor)[…]. “We’re offering ministry to everyone. We have a divorce-recovery ministry, a blended-family ministry, a grief-recovery ministry — something for everyone’s needs.

Maybe it’s my rabid aversion to shopping malls, but I wonder if that’s a beneficial analogy to use. It is an apt description of a particular model of church, but I find myself so far away from that analogy that it’s weird to me.