J. Bonner Ritchie - Security Religion vs. Growth Religion

Security religion provides refuge.  It builds an ecclesiastical wall which protects from the onslaught of questions and doubts and decisions.  Growth religion, on the other hand, forces its adherents to grow, to accept responsibility, to assume the burden of proof, to move beyond extrinsic constraints.  Growth religion provides not a wall but stepping stones to climb for the purposes of understanding, analyzing, serving, and making choices. We all seek the safe harbor at times.  We need to be protected, to rest so we can go back for the battle.  Security needn't be an inhibiting force; it can and should be positive.  Whether it is or not depends more on how the member responds to the system than how the system makes demands of the member.

J. Bonner Ritchie, "The Institutional Church and the Individual",

Lowell Bennion - On Institutionalism

There is always the danger that the fraternity will work to enhance itself rather than to serve its members; that the army will perpetuate itself and its own interest above service to the country...Religion does not always escape this limitation of institutions.  If leaders are not careful, the church becomes the end and the people the means of building and supporting it.

Lowell Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth pg. 95-96