CHristian Church Congregations - Stop Using People

I suppose "being used" is better than not being noticed at all - (there's always something to be grateful for) - but I'm coming to the realization that the local Christian church I'm working for was trying to exploit me and the kids I work with, trying to use us to drum up some club members for the pews on Sunday. They're not really looking for Christian fellowship in a spiritual sense but more people to eat chocolate cake with each Sunday in a empty McDonald's Hamburgers "Billions-served" way.

They started a outreach program in music that I was hired for and was told that it was an educational outreach project. Not the truth. A deceptive lie. It turns out they were looking to boost number in their congregation and the project is just a ruse to try to achieve this. Although the project is reasonably successful for what was advertised for and serves well for an educational outreach project, it hasn't boosted their congregation numbers.

So, they shun the children involved in the project and the project itself. It doesn't serve them, so it's of no value- or at least of no value they understand. It's like a narcissist that discards another when their usefulness is finished. The community, the children, the project and I were being used for these folks selfish purposes. They don't communicate, don't participate or take any responsibility for the project they've initiated. When the lie didn't work, they try to abandon it the way a narcissistic parent drops a child that doesn't perfectly mirror the parent's image.

Using people seems to be a common Christian church practice and it needs to stop if the church wants to be a healthy place for worship. It's one of the reasons young people are looking elsewhere for a spiritual path and guidance, rather than the neighborhood church. Deceiving people, trying to or misleading them into following will catch up to you - if it works at all.
Even though this church has managed to bring more people into the church, they aren't the kind of people they're interested in befriending or associating with. And it shows. The body language to the community is, "we invite you, but we're not interested in you."
It's a toxic facade, not a church.

Hopefully not a church Jesus would approve of.