gospel is kinda like opera...only good live, and only good when done to perfection

Hello, my name is opera mom, and i am a bonafied music snob.
okay, i will admit it. the only gospel that i have ever liked was Sandi Patti. I mean in the older years. you know. the "We shall behold Him," years. Unfortunately, all of the churches I have ever attended butchered gospel something fierce. Here's an example. Getting notes wrong. Severely out of tune. Wide vibrato. i say again, in case you missed it, wide vibrato. All I remember about gospel music growing up was watching someone's larynx shake from the audience, and sweating bullets for them at the end, just hoping they would be able to hit that last high note. You know the one that modulated, higher, and higher until the singer could screech your ears clean off. I never knew anyone could turn that purple.
okay, that said, i think you get that i didn't have great gospel moments growing up. until....i met my music minister. only the most talented gent to ever grace the choral church music stage. And, the man can pick music. He had a gospel galla, (yes, say that with a southern drawl), that would catapult your senses straight to heaven. The man did it to perfection!!!!! Wow. It occurred to me, as we were closing with "A midnight cry," (sung perfectly by an African American soulful, holy spirit filled, beauty)...that I had missed out my whole life on good gospel. Good gospel, done right, can send you closer to heaven than any other music, and i say that with all honesty. ME! opera snob. I swear I was ready to go home to the promise land.
And, opera is the same way. there is nothing worse than listening to a bad opera singer. you just want to get up and leave. and, like gospel, sense the music is so beautiful, every jo smo wants to sing it. And, i almost forgot to mention, to go along with my title, that both gospel and opera are only really good live. I run across a lot of people who turn their noses up at opera, and then i ask them one fateful question..."have you ever been to an opera?" the stuttered answer is always..."well, no." once again, opera snob strikes again. It's the same for gospel. When i am flipping radio stations, i am never going to stop at the gospel station no matter how well it is done. it is definitely a live art form like opera. (not to say that recordings are bad, but live is indefinitely better. Unlike rock and roll, where live is often...well...milli vanilli.)
Anyway, that said...I have a new love. (say this also with a southern accent), Good ol' Gospel music.