[WhirlwindAttack]

I saw a small church turn into a multi-million dollar money machine. I once knew everyone and their families.

Seminars, gatherings, the faithful opened their homes to visitors.

Two services on Sunday morning, everyone wearing name tags.
They out grew the converted bowling alley church building.

When they bought a Convention Center the city was losing money on They exploded into a mega church. ATM, Starbucks the whole nine yards. They even sold breakfast buffet and lunch in the fellowship hall.

When they started taking donations in wheelbarrows up front so they could see who contributed I left.

I’ve not been in a church since. I pray, I believe.
I won’t support the money changers in the temple though.

[mn-bush-man]

I am so very sorry that you experienced this. It is so sad how the ‘church’ has been perverted in far too many situations. I pray that the Spirit will bring you into fellowship with other believers so you can enjoy growth and Brotherhood the way it was intended. We were without a fellowship after our ‘smallish’ church started traveling down the same big, seeker-sensitive path. We are now happily a part of a much smaller fellowship of Christians who are hungry to be fed and to serve. It’s family, like our former church used to be.

[af_vet_1981]

You went to the wrong place. Not your fault; it happens.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Hebrews, Catholic chapter ten, Protestant verses twenty three to twenty five,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James