Agreed. I was raised as an Episcopalian but after reading the Bible in its entirety (something few Episcopalians do these days), I find it more and more difficult to go to services every week. I think I get a better understanding of my faith listening to podcasts by Mark Driscoll, John Piper, Gary Wilkerson and R.C. Sproul while I’m outside working in the yard and mowing the lawn than during the 10-minute sermon about the Millenium Development Goals at my church. It’s sad how the Episcopal Church has become nothing more than just another vehicle to promote Socialism and various other left wing causes.
At my church it has been all about the new building and the outrageously expensive new organ, which I’m still trying to figure out the necessity for.
Other than it being a bribe to get the music director to stay I can’t see why it is needed. The cost was in excess of $2 million and that doesn’t include the costs of remodeling the sanctuary so that it will fit in the space.
These days it isn’t so much about spiritual salvation as it is about “pomp and show”.