The church is not always a sign of contradiction to this modern lack of community. In the first decade of my life as an adult Christian, I left church as soon as services were over. Getting involved with the people there was not interesting. Just Jesus and me was all I wanted and all I needed, or so I thought. You might say that I wasn’t interested in joining their pilgrimage, that I preferred to be a tourist at church—and was too spiritually immature to understand how harmful this was.
