[OBW]

I think that "forget the church, follow Jesus" is about as misguided a statement as we can come up with.

It would seem that following Jesus involves the church. That does not mean simply follow the church without reference to Jesus. But if you think you are following Jesus without a group of support (which is, pretty much by definition, church), then you are seriously deluded. That is how you get back to Nee's "intuition."

Just me and my Bible and Jesus is most likely doomed. A group of us has a chance.

And being a disjointed, unaffiliated, non-group of Christians all doing their own version of what they think is Jesus is more confusing to the world than the multitude of splinters of Christianity that we already have. I don't buy one church per city based on dirt and political boundaries. But just as bad is 1,000,000 churches of one in a city that is only 2,000,000, of which half are Christian.

Seems that the Army quickly figured out that it is not a collection of individuals, but a team. And it quickly dumped its "Army of One" advertising. But we are taking the church of one all the way to the end because we like "rugged individualism." Have at it.

In a few years, the best question will be "how's that workin' for ya?"