Mega Churches

This weekend Dan and I ventured out of our little small town of Kirksville into the big city life of St. Louis. We attended church down there and I felt this warranted a new post and maybe a little bit of a rant on churches.
We attended a church the one might label a "mega church" or at least on the path to being a mega church. When we walked into the sanctuary, I knew that I was really going to have to start praying that God opens my heart and not allow my preconceived notions to interfere with the message and the service, IF it was honoring to Him. My first impressions saw a stage with multi-colored lights, tv monitors down in front facing the stage for what i assume is the people on the stage. The music minister comes out and encourages us all to enter throne room thru worship and to really focus our hearts, while the music is slowing down and a couple come out right on cue to begin a prayer. While the couple is praying, the music minister(who was just encouraging us to prepare our hearts for worship) is rearranging the choir and getting people in their proper places. The pastor went on to give a pointless message that he applied random scripture to and stated more times that this is "all speculation". I've been to a few other churches like this, where it's so big and seems more like a production that is so perfectly choreographed. i mean, at this church, there was a lady sitting down in front with a freakin headset on talking to who knows who..! I just felt a sadness in my heart. I have nothing against churches that incorporate different ideas and thoughts into their services. However, i do have a problem with churches who spend so much money on making things look good and cool when there are soo many other needs that need to be met, probably within their own church.
I think i am coming to the conclusion that churche need to be kept small. There is NO way you can have community with a church of 10,000 or 20,000. How can you know the needs of your parishoners if you don't even know who they are? How can you make sure people are being actively involved in discipleship and are thirsting after the Word of God if you have 5 different services? I think when a church gets too big, it should break of and start a new church. I think too many christians think that numbers are a good indicator of spiritual growth for a church and I think that is a dangerous assumption. I can barely stomach some of these churches and wonder if Jesus was on earth, if he would enter in on a Sunday morning and start driving out people with a whip.