Silliman muses on community in various ways:

- The search for community among Christians manifests itself as primitivism opposed to a Christianity centered on an isolating and individualizing church service, and seeking a faith subsisting of a life lived together.
- The search for community among Christians manifests itself as a move toward liturgy, where worship is recognized as a communal and participatory action and the Church is not a thing of tenants and propriety but a body of the living and the dead in the service and worship of Christ.
- Primitivists and liturgists, ostensibly polar, both believe that true faith and doctrine take place within the community that is the Church.
- The recent history of Christian movements is divided between those seeking "a personal faith" and those seeking a tradition.
- The Scripture, textually and historically, is not a thing of private devotions and revelations, but a public book. The Reformation's strength or weakness is found here, for it either made the book available all, saving the bible from clerical gnosticism, or made the book an individual affair, sheering it of its communal openness and limiting it to private exegesis.
- The two primary doctrines of Christianity, the Trinity and the Incarnation, are by nature communal.

I recognise myself in here.