4/22/2004 06:50:00 PM

In his book 'A Churchless Faith' Alan Jamieson found that most people who left churches retained their faith and even grew in it, in spite of or even because of their lack of conventional belonging. A lot of those who 'leave' churches are... leaving the local for the network. They are moving into a wider circle of connectedness, retaining some at least of their existing connections including, often, links back into the churches they have 'left'.

-Steve Collins, Network Church 3