It seems when all Christian institutions when they reach a certain size they become worldly and apostate. Thus forcing a faithful remnant to break off in order to preserve the faith once for all delivered to the Saints. Just look at the history of the Ivy League colleges, most of which started as devout seminaries.
..It seems when all Christian institutions when they reach a certain size they become worldly and apostate.
Any organization that becomes larger than Dunbars Number, begins to fragment and break apart.
Dunbar has argued that 150 would be the mean group size only for communities with a very high incentive to remain together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number