In 1996, Mark Batterson opened a “church for the unchurched” with about 50 worshipers meeting in Union Station’s dingy, basement movie theaters. Today, National Community Church, named one of America’s “most innovative and influential” by the Christian Outreach magazine, has expanded to three more D.C-area theaters, a Capitol Hill coffee shop, and weekly attendance of about 1,500 people. The unexpected early October closing of the Union Station theaters left one congregation homeless, but faithful. Batterson, 39, spoke with The Examiner about where his faith comes from, and what place has to do with it.

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