When you are involved in organized religion, status quo become very important so as the keep the group stable and growing. Awkward question are often banished. Dissenting idea get squashed. Sometime this is because the hierarchy feels threatened, but often it is because the desire for stability out weighs the desire for enquirery. This could be why Jesus only had twelve disciples and some seventy two followers. These numbers allowed for awkward questions, members of the group could approach Jesus and make enquiry. While Jesus said of himself that he will build his church, it was never meant to be bricks and mortor, priests and popes. It was always meant to be people together where ever they were. This tension of established religion, the catholics, the orthodox, and in the last 500 years various Protestants organizations and hierarchy, has always battled with the Sage, the Hermit, the Prophet, even the Teacher and the Evanglist. Theses female and male dissenters, who have taken Jesus’s teachings verbatim, caring for the poor, telling the rich to give up everything and pick up their cross, calling out the hypocrisy, saying everyone is now a priest, making grace free, have ended up on their own crosses, burnt at the stake, forced to a false confusion, excommunicated, shunned. Just like Jesus was. Jesus has called us to an open-source gathering, where each person is an equal participant, not nessaccery equally skilled, but anyone is welcome, believer or not. Jesus spent no time convincing people of his stance, he was interested in disciples not proselytes. If they wanted to follow they could, every one was welcome, even a eunuch. Herein lies our problem today, we are not to make disciples after ourselves, but only after Jesus. Organized religion tries to create adherence not disciples. If we follow Jesus’s mold that means at all turns we lose the very people that could grow our organization, our denomination, our religion because our job is the only Point people at Jesus. Open source gatherings will see people come and see people go, it is far more interested in replication than growth. Status quo just is not important.