Yes I was.
In my teens and 20s, I did a lot of wandering in the wilderness. I shunned God for years, and then under His nudging, I started to come back. My path led me through such diverse entities as the Crystal Cathedral, several different versions of the Church of Christ, the Salvation Army and some non denominational churches. I have been to ELCA and Missouri Synod Lutheran churches, and on my road back, in a conservative Anglican church.
I saw one common theme in all of them, whether doctrinal, bible-thumping or feel-good only. They are wholly and completely man-made. They also do not have the fullness of what Jesus left for us. They are very poor doctrinally - obviously some more than others.
Some have attempted to keep the spirit of the Church going - some Missouri Synod churches and Anglican churches appear and feel much more like the Church than some of the new Methodist-wannabe churches built over the last decade or so. Others simply have a stage on which a preening rooster struts up and down hectoring, lecturing and being the center of attention.
But they simply don’t have it. They don’t have the Eucharist, they don’t have the Sacraments, everything is symbolic or else it simply doesn’t exist. They have variations of fellowship or fear. But they are all man-made imitations of The Church, some much poorer than others.
Prodigal son? A lot of elements fit. And I was welcomed back to circumstances far greater than anything I deserve.
They don’t have the Eucharist, they don’t have the Sacraments...
I've always wondered how the Passover meal, which was a yearly reminder of God's salvation, got morphed into something that happens every time the door to the church is open.