We should not be a top down church. We should be a bottom up church, like a tree, ever bringing forth new exciting shoots and branches...

families and tribes function like this too, no?...

Finally, the world is like a tree:

The human family is the essential building block. Families grow on the trunk, branches, etc. But no tree grows beyond the sky, as we say. No matter how great a tree is, at some point its end comes. But from one of the seeds again a new tree grows, even more formidable. This seed is one of the families. This goes on and on...