should the church change??

why does the church think that for things to be "spiritual" that they have to happen inside the church? it seems that we have gotten confused on where ministry happens. when we look at the early church, they used the temple some as meeting places, but most of the time we see that they were out among the people. they went to where the people were and did things there, they didn't go to the people and invite them to church or a special program. they performed miracles signs and wonders, they preached to the people, or they talked to the people about jesus, and it seemed that god blessed their efforts. they were always out with the people. i can't seem to figure out how we have shifted from this type of ministry to the type where we sit in church and beg people to come in there instead of being willing to go out to them where they are.

why is the church so reluctant to go out to the people? many of the great spiritual renewals that took place throughout history took place because somone was willing to step outside the box and go to where the people were. the church seems to be failing in its mission lately yet we ae still clinging to our failing tactics. we don't change the way we try to win people to jesus we just call it something else and do it a different day-but it always still involves using the church and inviting people to it (not to say this can't be effective, but i think statistics would show that it isn't working). the church isn't growing in number in america but worse than that the population continues to grow so not only are we losing people we do have but we are missing out on all the population growth.

what will it take for us to change our ideas of how the church should function? should we make drastic changes to the church or should we leave it alone?? what do you think?