I've been enjoying your articles on church decline (still working on mine from the American perspective), and I have a question about something that I think is fueling it here and may be there as well. There has been a sharp increase in the number of so-called house churches and even smaller "micro-churches." Do you think that the continuing trend toward individualism has caused people to believe they no longer need a "traditional" congregation?

There seem to be two prevalent extremes right now, at least among evangelicals here: massive megachurches or house churches of only two or three families, with an ever-shrinking middle ground.