[quote:v8ahiq49]For a non-Catholic Christian, picking a church can mean also picking a shepherd, leading to a kind of self-shepherding-sheep paradigm.[/quote:v8ahiq49]

Well yeah, that’s what I was getting at. Picking a church already in line with your beliefs or one that you agree with is no way to be ministered to and discover the truth of Jesus – it only affirms what you already believe and it would seem to me that there is no growth (spiritual and whatnot) in that kind of a situation.