"I think that might be the real reason you find it a more spiritual experience. It's a smaller church where "everybody knows your name". That will almost always make one feel more connected w/ others and with G-d."
Amen, sister!!!!!!
Might help if I paid attention to what I was cheering.
Amen to "I also find it insulting to me that you think people who dress nicely in G-d's house think they are "better than the rest of us". It's elitist enough to make you gag."