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The obvious abuses of power are not hard to find. It would be a massive undertaking to determine where all the money in the collection plates goes. One part that bugs me is all the buildings. Community space is always an issue for non-profit work, and having kitchens sit idle most of the time is a real waste. There are charity watch groups and you can find ratings across the board for the charity arms of churches, although I’m not aware of any study that averages all those out.

There are quite large organizations that do the work they say is inspired by Jesus, but they keep it separate from their mission work, like UMCOR. http://www.umc.org/how-we-serve/responding-to-disaster