Pleasing the extremes does little for the middle

The Grass Roots Church: "There must be equal emphasis placed on the necessity of a renewal of the traditional functions of the Church-the nurturing of community, the teaching of the faith, and the pastoral and preaching ministries. Thus, in proposing a new structure for Protestantism, the priority is not on supplementary structures that will enable the "far out" clergy to experiment at the edges of the religious institution. I do not propose an occasional "Christian coffee house" here, a maverick ministry to the poor there, or a series of ad hoc activities carried out without the knowledge and consent of most church members. Such an approach only shields us from the depths of the Protestant sickness. The first persons to see this should be the avant garde within the churches. Of all people, they should realize that such scattershot renewal is, at best, partial and, at worst, a concession on the part of the status quo, anxious to please the prophets in order to keep them confined to the periphery.
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