CHURCH AS RELATIONAL ACTION

What if we would be church the following way:

• covenant with Him and celebrate life
• share our lives and celebrate each other
• open our eyes and together contradict evil around us?

Actionwise this could mean to

• teach each other how to live a good life with eternal perspectives (lecture, dialogue, workshop, training etc.)
• explore and celebrate each other (peer groups with story telling, listening & feedback, prophecy & intercession, fun & feasting...)
• meet each other's needs by sharing resources (ideas, time, money, equipment, space, contacts, know-how...)
• actively seek-out and solidarize with those in need (latch-key kids, lonely elderly, single parents, unemployed, your normal neighbor, anyone coming your way...) and find ways to do good (and no, i am not talking "servant-evangelism"!)
• understand and counteract destructive cultural  patterns around us and find ways to contradict evil in the public space (of media, professions, politics, curricula, the web, the street...)
• and to use the time freed up by less religious activities to do these things together!

Structurally this could mean to think about

• networks of and meetings with friends
• global/ local clusters of friendship networks 
• an extensive online social network environment
• specialists and interspecialists connections
• engaging the culture task forces
• specific outreach/ project/  neighborhood groups
• training workshops/ lectures
• area resource centers [term borrowed] etc.

I cannot imagine this is easily done. To start with a minimum budget of time i suggest we stop our overdose of religious activities (like singing and praying, reading and talking, and talking and reading and singing and praying...) and start Loving God, Each Other, Our Neighbor and This World together with Him.

Just for a change.