"You have to use things like replication or evolution or self-assembly or self-repair," said Warren Packard, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has invested in the field. "We need to figure out how to grow systems versus build systems."

This guy is talking about the field of nanotechnology but the thought struck me that there may be a correlation to the church. Several people have long proclaimed the need to be organic rather than mechanical when it comes to the church but how we actually do that is the hard part. In a lot of ways we face the same problems as nanotechnology. We focus on building rather than growing.