Church Should Be...?

The following is a post about what I think church should look like.  It's mostly from a comment I made here.

Basically, I think that the model of church we follow is pretty unhelpful and puts focus on the wrong things and neglects things that should be priorities for us.
I presume that there are churches out there that look more like this than the churches that I've experienced, and I'd love to hear about them.

We're too focused on Sunday services.  Sunday services are great, but I don't think that they should be the main goal of the local church.  I think that Sunday services should be a time for the larger body of the local church to meet together and build each other up and to welcome in new members of the fold.  It's a good time to sing together, to read  the Bible, to pray and to model things like confessions and affirming what we believe.  I think it should be seen as a time of fellowship with believers for believers, but it should also be broad enough in its scope to be welcoming to most, if not all believers.  When we focus our time and energy on the Sunday service we focus only on ourselves and neglect the mission to spread the gospel to the nations.  I think that Sunday services should be the ministry of as few as possible so that the ministry of as many people as possible can be focused on spreading the gospel.

I think that every committed Christian should be in a small group and that churches need to be telling serious Christians that if they are committed to serving God in their local church that they should seek to do so through such a group. These groups could be the base for small groups of Christians working together in the community to spread the gospel.  I think small groups should be like a family.  They should live close to each other, for convenience' sake, they should spend time together reading God's Word and praying.  They should share meals together to build friendship.  They should be constantly engaged in working together to tell others about Jesus.

This model sees the small group working together to drive the spread of the gospel and disciple the Christians in the group, and the local Sunday church service, then, exists to build up, support, encourage and unify these groups.

You still need pastors to oversee, teach and protect the flock. But I think we should give more responsibility to lay people who are often just as talented, committed and able to help out.  The main difference is that those committed lay people also have an actual job and so they have less time on their hands.

I think that at the moment church is a Sunday and Wednesday thing for most people.  This is a travesty. How we can possibly read the Bible and think that a level of commitment for about 4 hours a week is appropriate is beyond me. 

My suspicion is that, at the moment, there are very few Christian adults evangelising to non-Christian adults.  This is a tragedy. 

There are more and more people who don't even know the gospel and who haven't really had it explained to them even though they live right next to Christians.  That is, we have an ever increasing number of people in our communities who are unreached and know exactly enough about God to condemn them to Hell.  We have failed them and can't afford to continue to do so.

Church right now isn't working.  I'm basically up for trying anything except what we're doing right now.  What I've written is what I'd like to try, but I bet others have better ideas than me.