The way I was brought up, unless one belonged to a brick and mortar church, then one was an apostate. These are a lot of the reasons people leave formal religion for solitary religious practice with family and kin, or for home churches.
Much of what you say about ekklesia also goes across the grain of the social and political presumptions of how faith should be expressed.
@BiblicalWarrior largely, yes. i feel the spirit of the teaching is to have a very large and open table, really all of one's life. and the entirety of that is one's church. but what i agree with or disagree with is immaterial. i'm an apostate in pretty much everyone's eyes. so there's that. there is only one point i'm not sure about, and i'm pondering that...
