one more thing.....

if you have read my last two posts and are a bit worried that this idea might inspire a lack of commitment to one's local/home church, please read this article on the Small Ritual website (which i have added to my links on the left) about the idea of Network Church. the ideas set forth in this article have effected me quite a bit as far of my view of the church structure. here is a bit from one of the articles on the site about Network Church:

"I think this is an acute coinage which accurately captures how many of us behave nowadays with regard to the Church. We don't have allegiance to just one, and we don't only connect locally. Our spiritual lives reflect the mobile and dispersed patterns of the rest of our lives. Once upon a time a geographical parish was a real community, within which people were born, lived, worked and died, sometimes without ever travelling outside it. Few of us in the Western world live such localised lives today. We move in a series of networks, enabled by our technologies of transport and communication."

so please, read the linked article to provide some back-story about the view of the local church i have set forth in my posts. the Church is bigger than we think, its time we realize that.