I Am So Glad My Friends Who Aren't Christians Don't Go To Christian Events.

So I went to Breakforth this weekend. One ginormous Christian fest if you've never heard of it before. Whenever I go to those big events, and find myself surrounded by "Christians" and the church-going type, I develop a very cynical attitude. Now, make no mistake I am a terrible judge of character, and I have no super powers that allow me to tell where people's hearts are at, but I just can't seem to take the services there seriously. I mean for starters, why is it after almost every worship song everyone claps. Is this a concert? are we praising God, or the musicians? and why is it that every worship leader that comes out gets a huge introduction before hand about how amazing they are. Would they be unable to worship God as good, if they were just regular people who screw up like everyone else? You know what really got me about the weekend. The guy who runs it. Arlen Salte. I think that's how it's spelt. He kept talking about how people need to give money to support the next Breakforth, and how people need to give money so him and his wife can go on a nice vacation-I mean missions trip-to a poor country and take pictures of them standing next to some starving African kid-I mean.... help the people. Yeah that's what they were doing there. But come to think of it, he never actually mentioned what they would do there, he only talked about how him and his wife needed some more money in order to be able to make it there. Here's my question. Why is it as Christians we have no problems donating to help support some HUGE over rated Christian weekend retreat for Christians, but we find it hard to give change to panhandlers. A little obscure I know. But think about it. Both people are hiding behind addictions, and avoiding dealing with the real world... except I don't know, I think the panhandlers are probably far more aware of the world around them than the Christian community.