If you choose to develop and evolve your relationship with god, then why would you choose to do so through the fallacy of man-made church? The scriptures weren't faxed here from heaven. How do you REALLY know that God's listening? because some rabbi told someone to say it five thousand years ago?
And I mostly certainly wouldn't measure the evolution of faith by the length of my skirt or by the number of Hail Marys or by the amount of infidels I kill.