I don't think it's that drastic. I'd characterize it more like: "I'd prefer to meet with 50 typical Christians than with 500 mostly non-Christians in a church setting." You seem to say that some of us are advocating elitism, which I don't believe we are (at least I'm not.) I find many, many hurt, wounded, bewildered,weaker brothers and sisters outside of the institutional church, but your mileage may vary.And while I am sure nobody here is advocating a complete removal from all Christian fellowship (the lone ranger Christian mentality, which I prefer to refer to as the decapitated Jesus model), I do think the overall anti-institutionalism of our culture (and perhaps specifically fans of Steve Gregg, including myself) may bring us into a mindset that it's better to meet with 5 radical Christians than 50 typical Christians. I don't agree.
My question is, if all the radical Christians leave the institutional churches to do their own thing together, aren't we doing a big disservice to our weaker brothers? I think it is a high calling to be a change agent in an institutional church. Perhaps not everyone's calling, but mine indeed.
I started this thread and I still am wrestling with some of the ideas posted here. For that reason, I'm going to take a break from posting in it in order to mull things over.