Church or Prison

In Britain we have many churches and cathedrals that people come to visit and marvel at their architecture.  Most of these buildings have been the cause of the death of many men who worked to erect them.  For them they were not places of beauty.  I have a friend who considers those sorts of churches to be prisons.  The more important the building the less the people in the congregation hear of the true gospel.  They become places for civic ceremonies and musical concerts ,instead of places where Christ is truly honoured.  I do not say this of the Church of England alone, for it seems to me there is a big problem in all the denominations.  There used to be evangelical colleges that trained young men to preach the gospel, but then they liked the idea of being able to give degrees and so linked up with universities who in their turn insisted on various changes to the curriculum.  The thing I notice about universities is that they are man centred and are all about saying how wonderful man is and what he can achieve, all on his own.  This concept heartily disagrees with the gospel.  How can a college wanting to train men to spread the gospel which says we can do nothing for ourselves but turn to Christ,link up with a university with a totally opposing ethos? So now we have big buildings which are difficult to maintain and congregations being led by people with a "compromised gospel" speaking to people who no longer know why they are there and are too lazy to find out for themselves what the gospel really is.  What a sad state of affairs.