Thoughts

I was reading Dear Church again and I was suprised to learn that the author had gone back to the instituaional church. This confused me because it doesn't line up with my experience. I don't think I would ever want to go back. I got to thinking about it though and realized a few things. My reasons and the author's reasons for departing the, as she would call it, "local" church (one in the same with what I call instituational church) were quite different. She left because the she was frustrated with the flaws and its values didn't seem to fit those that she thought a local church should have. On the contrary when I left the local church, I did it because it was right for me to join my current fellowship. My frustration with the the local church was only a sidenote and I saw organic house church as just as lugitimate a way of worship as a local church. I don't want to go back bacause what I have now is better than anything else I've experienced. On the other hand, she has been back and forth several times because it has or has not fit with her ideals.