I’ve done a lot of reading lately on small Christian churches. Some things keep cropping up:
When we refer to church, we often go immediately in our thinking to a building or facility. “I’m going to church” puts us someplace. But the building is not the church. The infrastructure of the internet can become a new “place” in our thinking. But the internet is not the church. Church is comprised of people.
“Churches” are the primary way Christians gather.
Any gathering immediately implies organization. We may talk of hierarchical, symbiotic, system model – whatever name we give, there is organization.
Observations – but you may already have some conclusions in mind.