The Micro and the Macro

With a good friend of mine studying economics, I have begun to think a lot about the micro and the macro in our world.

It seems more and more people are either drawn to the very small and intimate, or the large and powerful. This is especially true in Christian community life in America.

Micro
house churches
small groups
intimate community

Macro
mega churches
lots of options
movement

I guess what I notice is that where people are struggling is in the in-between space. People like small churches and large churches. But medium size churches (150-500) are becoming more and more rare and uncomfortable.

This has a lot of implications for community and belonging. There are a lot of very intimate places in churches, and very public places in churches. There is, however, very little middle ground, or transition points from the public to the intimate.
See THE SEARCH TO BELONG by Myers for more on this.

I see this trend in other areas of society to:

indy films vs blockbusters

Ford Focus vs. Ford Explorer

cell phones vs. conference calls

Do the rest of you see this? What implications do you see it having?