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I have more of an issue with them building multiple campuses in an area, their pastors living in the same neighborhood as a D-1 Basketball coach who has won an NC, but yet when things happen in the community they're the last churches you see giving back.

For instance, a couple summers ago my parent's power was out due to storms in the area for about a week. Something like 90 degree temps. Two of the smaller, more meager churches in the area had members literally walking the neighborhoods handing out cold bottled water and checking on elderly people in the area. The mega church in the area? Nowhere to be seen until it had a guest speaker coming in where member could pay to see him speak. THEN they were canvasing the neighborhood to hand out flyers.

A church is supposed to be part of the community and to help nurture that community. It certainly seems like some of these mega churches are in it for the money and classism.

Thats sad. There is an episode of American Greed about some mega-church, I think was in Florida. There were several pro athletes who attended, many of the members were upper-middle class. The church was supposedly putting together this big project in some country in Africa that was suppose to supply people with clean water, put in new sewage systems, etc.

The guy running the church would show a presentation of the progress that was being made, every so often, etc. The members of the church really thought they were apart of something that was making a difference, but somehow it was discovered there was no such project going on. Over several years the person head of the church pocketed millions of dollars. The pictures he was using for the presentation ended up being pictures of a construction site in the US. I don't understand how people out 100% trust into these churches.

You mentioned how the mega-church in your area didn't do anything to help people. Come to think about it, do any mega-churches ever get involved after any type of charity?

With that said, I do think Healing Place church in Baton Rouge helped out during and after the floods, but now I am curious if they did, for sure, or not.