[TSgt]

I’ve been to both very poor small churches and very rich mega-churches. It’s hard to find legitimacy and authenticity in mega-churches and the services are productions.

I’ll take a poor country church any-day...

[Frantzie]

Amen brother. The small church pastor or priest is usually the real deal. They are not like Rick Warren or Joel Olsteen with his first class tickets to Aspen to go skiing with the trophy wife going off on the stewardess. Or his perfect teeth and hairdo.

As Al Pacino as Scarface said about his WASP money laundering banker - “phonies.”

Mega churches become businesses. At that point, I do not need a middleman to talk to God. Small churches usually “get it.”

One of the last churches I went to was a more progressive Catholic church. It was not my choice but someone I was driving to church. I thought it was a business conference center. Where was the crucifix? The cross was invisible like the Holy ghost or something. Nutty.