​I understand why “church” is often reduced to sitting in impersonal rows to watch a staged, scripted “service” each week by the “senior pastor” and his “worship” team.

Although it has nothing to do with church as the New Testament commands it …

It does eliminate the hard work of actually being the church.

In contrast, the New Testament says we’re to be a functional community which, among other things, gathers together to unassumingly minister one to another …

By strengthening and encouraging each other through the diverse gifts and abilities God distributes among us.