Institutionalize me!

I can't get away from wanting to work for churches. I have friends who think that churches as we know them, with buildings and so forth, are a thing of the past. They all want to start house church movements, coffee house churches, African churches, Chinese churches, and stuff like that. Nobody argues that those who attend institutional churches aren't saved, but much of the rhetoric among grad students and faculty is anti-institutional. And yet, I can't escape. George Barna this, missional that, fine. Somebody still has to serve the churches that already exist, whether they're on their way out or not. I feel called to be one of the institutional guys. Every church that I've been to has in some way or another hurt me, and so I feel like Moses at the end of the burning bush scene: "Please, Lord, send somebody else." Moses didn't get off that easy, and, I suspect, neither will I.