From the Lower East Side, St. Lydia\u2019s went to a borrowed space at the Brooklyn Zen Center. Two years ago, the church took over a small storefront space, using about $140,000 to renovate the room into a daytime co-working space complete with an open kitchen and windows overlooking the street. Much of St. Lydia\u2019s funding comes from her denomination, and she hopes to grow the co-working side.<\/p>\n
Nadia Bolz-Weber, an author and the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, is part of Ms. Scott\u2019s denomination. She described Ms. Scott\u2019s participatory style of worship as drawing in a generation accustomed to user-generated content.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a whole population that is culturally millennial that is used to participating in the content of their lives, in a way that a generation before them were only consuming products that religious authorities were distributing,\u201d\u009d said Ms. Bolz-Weber.<\/p>\n
Yet to create that kind of church, she said, you need a charismatic leader who other people want to hang around. \u201cIt demands everything of you,\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n