The church, of course, is not a building (property values notwithstanding). It is also not the people who gather in (or near or far from) a building. It is the *work* of the people. But just as a building makes an impact on the work of the people who meet in a building, so also—and in a big way—the *people* make an impact on the work of the church. It is, however, it seems to me, a mistake to set out to make a faithful church by focusing on the "spirituality" (or whatever) of the people who gather as a church. Of course, "spirituality" (or whatever) matters, but that comes (as John Wesley never tired of pointing out) by the means of grace and the means of grace are works, like visiting the sick and the poor. All this is why I think it is a major mistake for seminaries to make preaching their focus. There certainly is a social dimension to preaching and preaching is not to be demeaned, but in a hyper-individualized world, preaching tends to be a lonely voice speaking to a room full of lonely ears. The task of the people who gather with the priest who serves them is to learn how to throw themselves into the means of grace, i.e., to learn to live eucharistically, i.e., to learn to repent and intercede.