Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.