Looking for a new church to attend. I grew up Roman Catholic did confirmation and all that other stuff, but I have no desire to attend mass ever again.
I also spent a few years as an atheist from 2010 to 2018.
In the last couple of weeks I started checking out a couple of churches. The people were nice, but it felt weird. People would randomly shout things like praise Jesus or they had their hands up in the air. This type of stuff never happened in Catholic mass.
The thing that bothered me the most it seems like all they were doing was asking for money. I understand money is needed to keep the lights on and other expenses. They were talking about how they needed money to "plant" other churches and to pay off their mortgage. I understand they want to spread the message, but wouldn't the money be better spent on mission work and not construction of state of the art facilities? I have no authority to tell these people how to structure their churches it is just an observation.
I also wasn't blown away by the sermons. Everything was on a PowerPoint. Then there was the cliches bad jokes everyone laughed at.
When I go to Church I don't want to be entertained. I don't want a motivation speaker. I want the Biblical principles to be talked about in depth.
Other things I have issues with: why would someone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a theology degree so they could then be a preacher? I always thought if someone went into the ministry they accepted and embraced a life of poverty?
I'm sure they exist, but I want to find a church where the preacher has a day job and has been touched by the world and come out the other side.
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