>Whenever I see something that is large, formal and impersonal I can’t seem to help but believe that it’s not on the right track.

There are always questions, but the questions are about the Jesus movement in whatever form it takes. Some of those questions are about big churches. Some are about small, dying churches.

“Large” is relative and not necessarily bad, but there will always be questions. “Formal” isn’t a bad thing in many case. It really depends, doesn’t it? And “impersonal” is pretty subjective. I think we’ve really overplayed the “let’s all be one big happy family who all agree and all smile and all do things together and….and….” I mean, no one can live up to the levels of “community” that some people insist must exist for the church to be legit.

It certainly isn’t the case that every small, personal, informal expression of religion is inherently more “Jesus-faithful” than other expressions.

Douglas: I thought that’s what I was reading, but I said….”Nah…...That just can’t be.”