Over at JesusCreed - Scot McKnight has posted an example of a emerging missionally focused church plant. Here is a break down of the structure of their gatherings which cycle around four different events in a month.

• First Sunday: Afternoon Service and concert at a specified ‘Social Centre’ of their city.
• Second Sunday: Members gather in houses (based geographically), for a meal and studying of the scriptures (based on what was preached the week before)
• Third Sunday: House churches meet to do a service project in the community.
• Fourth Sunday: Celebration and party time with the whole church (or atleast each individual house church community)

While I love the idea of different ways of being church I wonder whether we’ll ever move away from classifying church as a ‘one off’ weekly event (maybe a 24/7 church is unrealistic, as I make comment on JesusCreed). I’d love to see more examples of churches functioning as (24/7) communities, where members live life together day by day, not week by week. I guess we don’t hear about such churches as it is impossible to document such interaction between communities. Maybe I’m off with the fairies and all this is a utopian dream that should be shelved? What do you think?