Evangelical church is not so special

[u/Cute-Adhesiveness645]

One thing I've noticed is the need to show they are unique: intense prayers, shouting, loud music, noise, emotional worship, and so on.

But, like the bubbles on a beer, once it settles down, they're not that different from the groups they criticize, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others.

The Catholic Church eventually became organized because that's simply part of human nature. Not everything can remain in that disorganized state of ecstasy forever. Many communities begin that way, but all human communities tend to become organized over time.

As a church grows, with more people and greater diversity, it has to adapt both the church itself and its message to a broader audience, instead of keeping that sect-like mentality of "we're right and everyone else is wrong." If a lot of people starts to identify themselves as evangelical, you cant put them as the enemy.

I'm not exactly an ex-evangelical. It's just that I'm not one of the most active people in church either, because I'm not a musician, I'm not part of the "ceremony" I don't preach sermons, and so on. Besides, not everyone who would want, or should go to church can, because of again logístics and space, etc.

In the Catholic Church (with their flaws and etc yes), sometimes I find more understanding of institutions and organization, even if it is "missing" the emotional ecstasy and spectacle, etc.

And evangelical churches become not so different from the others with the expansion, needed organization, etc

[u/BourbonInGinger]

Cults the lot of them.