I really related to some of the stages in the post below. The word 'faith' is used could be endlessly argued over. I also feel that the article confers that the church systems and structures are under strain because people in them are going through these 'stages of faith'and suggests churches need to adjust to these changes in people.
I would most probably come at this from another angle. Looking back at my journey, and from what I read, I wonder if 'Churchianity' actually causes most of these stages not faith. Did the early Believers go through these stages of faith? Perhaps, perhaps not.
I know I should validate what I have just said and perhaps I will in another post.
My personal belief (at this momment) is that our life in Christ is a journey, a pilgrimage. We literally need to stay on the move with God (literaly)through our life. It should be FLUID and FLOWING. Churchianity I believe encourages us to do the opposite. It encourages us instead of being pilgrims and pioneers to be settlers (rigid). We are told we need to settle down in a local church and not move on. So the Holy Spirit has placed in us a pilgrims heart which is constantly moving forward, but we have put on settlers
clothes and are trying to act like a good Christian settler. My own opinion is that these 'stages of faith' is what happens in the tension between settling in one place and pilgrimage. I wonder (no proof) if Christians who from the first time they followed Christ
became pilgrims and stayed that way, would have a different experiance? Who knows at this momment. This is just my opinonated opinon 
