More Institutions, Please

To lose this would not be part of some kind of institutional decluttering. We are not holding onto this out of some kind of uppity desire to have a church sanctuary with the stained glass we love the most. I am part of a small community that is tenaciously holding onto what we have because our institutional, committee-driven, bureaucratical structures matter greatly not just to us, but our whole community.

Read more about valuing the institutional church here.