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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a town (not DC) with many fundamentalist Christian churches.  Lately, I have been talking to acquaintances who attend these churches and read some blogs and websites and done other research about them and my conclusion is that these churches are nothing more than big social organizaations.  So many of them have "fellowship" meetings that consist of hikes or potluck dinners or breakfast meetings or ski trips or other fun outings.  These churches also seem to have plenty of money to pay for a lot of full time staffers.  One church has two full-time youth leaders.  From what I can tell, all the youth leaders seem to do is host a weekly pizza night with the teens plus weekend outdoor outings such as camping trips and paintball.  One of the youth leaders is approx. age 30 and he and his wife have a very nice house and are raising four young children.  They look like models from Outside magazine.  I'm thinking he makes a pretty good salary for a very easy job. I grew up in the Catholic church and it was nothing like this.  The Catholic church emphasized helping the needy.  The priests had volunteers (mostly older women) helping them run the church and rectory. These new age independent Bible church seems to emphasize the self.  It just seems like religion-lite.  They have many "ministries" - such as "divorce care" and "young parents group".  These churches just seem so funny to me.  The people only like to associate with other "Christians" and talk about "praying" for silly things.  They do seem to have "mission trips" once a year to places like Guatemala, but even these trips, which are funded by the trip, seem like nothing more than a vacation with a little bit of praying or house-building built in.  What does anyone else think about these Bible churches? [/quote]

Haha, I was reading along wondering if you too were Catholic, and when I got to the part where you said that you are, I coudln't help but smile.  We are too, and my DH and I often say the same types of things to one another about this same topic.  It's a bit different from what we are used to, isn't it?  My brain cannot quite wrap around it and I keep trying to wonder, "But, but, but, . . .where is the 'THERE' there??  What is the doctrine?  Are there sacraments?  WHAT BASICALLY IS GOING ON HERE???"  I know this won't really make sense to non-Catholics reading this (and probably maybe fallen away Catholics too) and many will sieze upon it to then do some more Catholic-bashing posts, but, just wanted to say, OP, I know what you are talking about, and my DH and I sometimes feel this way too.  It doesn't fit into our mental framework very well but it does seem to do some good.  It's just, I would classify it more as a benevolent social organization too.  Shrug.  Oh well.  (This will annoy all the non-Catholics):  Pray for them. :)  [/quote]

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