institutional decline, or new birth ?

Sarah Britten gives insight in the secularization that engulfs church life in Australia. Whilst she is grappling with a key question, why people leave the mainline church, its seems as if she is maybe missing the point that many people actually leave a particular form of Christiandom behind.

Newer expressions of living out Christian spirituality, might not come in the same guise as before, and are the etchings of a new epoch- free from the trappings of power and mammon.