Stormtrooper,
I'd like to take a shot at your question.  

To begin, whatever else the church may be, it is clearly embedded in human form.  Without that concept, the rest means nothing.

I believe very strongly that to the degree that there is divine influence on the church, that influence comes from our combined wisdom and experience.  There's a reason, for example, the story of Lot remains in the bible, and resonates even today.  Human suffering is very difficult to explain.  Yet, beauty and wisdom can emerge from that, as it can from so many other areas of human experience.  THAT gift is where the divine resides.  When we interact with each other, we're sharing that wisdom, that pain, that joy, that love (etc.)  THAT'S what we have to work with today.  The church's leadership plays this game of saying "no new revelation," while pretty much also stating "... and we hold it all, so you have to obey."  rubbish.  The "divine" within the church cannot be "controlled' by the institution.