You know what people say about an Apple computer, "It Just Works."  Good church is like that.

I've been pondering this.  "Church is were I can rest, communicate, question, ponder, hug, laugh, cry, and love.  Sometimes I feel it in rooms with stained-glass.  Always, I can see it in children's eyes.  

"The Bible, Jesus, God are excellent means to an end.  There are other means to the same end"

I love the way that you've described it - to this midwesterner it is that overwhelming feeling of "Gosh, how lucky am I that I'm in the middle of this, this, this Moment."