Thank you for your kind words and civil tone, but I have to ask you what, if anything in the thought above differs in the least from the Mormons asking me to forgo attention toward the sayings of their false prophet and concentrate upon the burning in my heart? THAT is how I know your church is true? No, we live before a God who, unlike every other, makes His words plain, and never ever changes them. Our God proves Himself by Himself. All one needs to do is seek that proof out, rightly dividing.
And I have never found God in a church of any sort (yours included). It is great to get together in praise, don't get me wrong, but if I am seeking His face, I withdraw from you and everyone else to be with Him. I have learned much in solitude with the Father, deep within the wilderness among mighty ramparts that make your greatest cathedrals look like silly baubles. The sound of the Rockies singing their praise put the best of your choirs to shame.
The works of men are indeed filthy rags. There is nothing in them.
So I will counter your challenge - Come with me into the wilderness, take Communion, fast, and wait upon the Father in prayer. Seek His face. And thereafter, let us see if you care to question the authenticity of my experience (and by then yours too). In that, your religious system (and every other) will be rendered moot. There is where one will find the Spirit without ANY trinkets and rituals, without any dogmas and authorities, without a hymnal or rite at all. And if He is found there, He is found anywhere, and by the same means.
The truth is not in the teachings of the Roman church. The truth is in the teaching of the Father through His Son, and that only in the presence of the Spirit. All you need is the Book and solitude, away from every distraction in order to prove I am right in what I say.
Amen!