Statements like yours are overly broad. There are many good churches. It’s similar to declaring websites like FreeRepublic are filled with intolerant right wing insurrectionists.
“Statements like yours are overly broad.”
Unless you think my statement/experience applies to all churches then it is not. I never said it was all churches. But so far as I can tell it’s a whole boatload of them around Sacramento that fit this description.
Part of why I intend to move to Idaho. Next week my wife and I are going up there to find a new home.
RE: There are many good churches
Definition of Denomination: Divisions based on names.
The Lord told Peter, “I will build my church.” He did not say, “I will build my churches.” Nor “I will build your churches.” The question is, “Of the good churches that you mention, which one did the Lord build?”
There were denominations at Corinth, one was named after Paul, one after Apollos, another after Peter and another after Christ. Paul’s response destroyed three of those denominations: He said, “Did Paul die for your sins?” Did Luther die for the sins of Lutherans? Wesley, Smith... Every denomination has a “founder”, a “human founder” who did not die for the sins of that denomination — except Christ, of course.
I will agree that many churches do good works; search for the one built by Christ.