This model is as old as Paul's teaching in the first Christian congregations. Here is an early account from the nineteen sixties of the implications of this model shift. Cells build up the body under the influence of something that may be called the life force. In Paul's illustration of the church as the body of Christ, the Holy Spirit corresponds to this life force. He creates, energizes, unites, and directs each cell, and apart from him we are dead.
Every cell has some things in common, and something that makes it different.
Our task here is to concentrate on diversity. On the one hand this has resulted in a profusion of new vitality. But it has also added to the complication of relating to others in a Christian gathering. Previously you either liked or disliked the priest or minister. And, apart from turning up on Sunday, you did not have to relate to him at any depth.