community loyalty and discipleship

Over at Paradoxology, there is a great discussion going on about community and loyalty and the new face of church committment. I commented, then had more thoughts that took up where my comments left off, so I decided to bring my comment to my blog and follow up.
I think that many up and coming believers were brought to or back to Christ outside a church. There is a slow, but growing revival going on out there, or at least "off-campus". As college students find themselves drawn closer to Christ by para-church stuff, off-campus church stuff, they don't feel as connected to a particular church. I have been involved in several on-going ministries to college students that were joint efforts of several churches (actually several denominations)and in these ministries "the church" is modeled as something much bigger than a group of people that worship at a particular location. The time is coming -it has, in fact, come - when what you are called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.
In my church, it is evident that a lot of folks coming out of the student ministry don't consider themselves a part of the church as a whole. I think they are plugging themselves into what delivers what they need.
Many of my students at work, actually come to our church for Bible study and go to another church for worship.
I could be completely wrong here, but I think some of these things will disappear as these students mature and begin to minister rather than having to seek the scratch for their own itches.
Here is where the discipleship problem comes in. They won't grow and begin to minister unless they are discipled. The scary thing is that here is something that HAS been experienced by previous generations and the boomer, "product oriented" flavor, has not succeeded in growing people out of the consumer mentality and into a ministry mentality. That's why they are so defensive of their product. With that track record, discipling split personality emerging Christians is of huge importance.
However, I think there is still an encouraging difference in the way things are happening in the younger generation.
Part of my snapshot church experience involves a paradigm that uses Sunday School as the evangelism and discipleship tool. Certainly the “seeker sensitive church uses “the seeker service” as the tool that attracts people, so there has to be something else in place to disciple. As people come to church, they will be reached through Sunday School and discipled. What happens though, is that nominal Christians in need of discipling often attend worship service at 11:00 and that’s the only time they’re in church all week. They never make the step to plug into anything smaller and deeper to encourage them to grow. The “big” service is where they step into the church and get no further.
On the other hand, it is often the discipling tool that is actually out there, off campus that is reaching people under the new paradigm. These people then enter the church at a deeper level and sometimes don’t make it to “the service”. But they are being discipled. I already mentioned knowing people who go to church one place and bible study someplace else. But I also know people who come to Bible study but don’t come to worship service. When I was in college, I remember singing at hundreds of churches and looking at the attendance plaque on the side wall and seeing a Sunday school attendance that was half that of the worship service. This is obviously a confusing shift as emerging Christians don’t sense enough nutrition at church worship services and opt for the smaller, deeper, more nourishing teaching and studies. Hopefully, this discipleship will lead them to commit for fully to the body and participate in the larger service, but its seems to me that they are in fact already being discipled, experiencing community, and are “in church”.
This seems to me more efficient than plugging into only the larger service where discipleship is slow in happening – especially when the stated purpose of that service is to attract “seeker”, not to disciple believers.
Anyway, this has all started as a response to another's blog so I haven't thought it all out too deeply yet. What are your thoughts?