I am beginning to realize that most of the one another verses in scripture, which are about the true life of the christian in the body, are not easily obeyed when we "do" church. Fellowship on Sunday mornig is more about being an observer than about serving each other, with a couple obvious exceptions: the Pastor and the worship team. Now this may primarily be in how I have experienced "church", but I am realizing I need the body life to be more full and vibrant. If you watch my facebook I am going to put all of the one another verses day after day. Think about where we actually practice these. Love one another. How do we as the church do that? I know we do some, but when our realtionships are limited to sunday and an occasional time some other time, it does not work. We need time together. Encourage one another. Unless we really know one another, how do we do that? Serve one another. Unless we are with each other and know the needs we have, we cannot obey this. etc.
I think the missional approach to church life as seen in the book "The Tangible Kingdom" points to a better way to be the body that helps us obey the one another verses. I am going to be working toward a different way to do church life in our youth group.
