Is the Grass Greener?

My buddy Adam Ellis pointed me to a church in Birmingham called the Disciples' Fellowship that as I looked through their site, I found it extremely interesting.

The part that found the most interesting was on their Journey page. Check this out:

Blueprints for Church by Tyler Priest

• be messy.
• don’t have members.
• don’t have church building with steeple.
• don’t have sign out front—nothing except small and unpresumptuous “Worship” stickered to side of door.
• don’t have anyone on stage to lead worship.
• don’t have bells (or whistles, for that matter).
• support missionary from Africa that is bringing the good news to USA.
• let guys in that show up drunk.
• care more about people than programs.
• give up children’s classrooms for recovering alcoholics to live in, or share the space.
• if sharing the space, allow partition to be a pair of jeans strung across rope.
• have a tomato, squash, and banana pepper garden on side patio.
• light up candles, brew coffee, see what happens.
• let IBM guy tickle ivories each week.
• don’t meet twice on the same day.
• be church every day.
• take in rejects that other churches don’t want around.
• allow “it’s all good” guy to pretend he’s Catholic.
• pay rent on building.
• create space to cry, laugh, breathe, stretch, grow.
• have CEO’s hanging out with rehabbers.
• sustain an emergent cohort.
• welcome 12 step groups of all kinds into building.
• don’t make Jesus a commodity for sale.
• purchase and dole out cigarettes to those who can’t control how much they smoke at one time.
• see questioners as maturing spiritually.
• let anyone talk about anything at any given time.
• change up worship format every week.
• listen to guy who talks about cat named Osama Bin Laden.
• never shut or lock pastor’s office door.
• don’t do “altar calls” and neglect guilt-inducing invitation songs.
• sing occasional U2 song.
• allow women to have voice beyond just singing.
• allow folks to belong before they believe.
• talk about stuff like a healthy family.
• pour out love of Christ into Honduras.
• be free to move about the kingdom.
• move away from black and white distinctions and toward mystery of God.
• ask more questions than answers.
• don’t make it about “us.”
• whatever happens, always say, “it is what it is” or “it’s all good” or even “everything’s holy now.”
• see what happens after lattermost phrase is said.
• let random red-headed guy play djembe drum if he wants to.
• be real and honest in all things, at all times.
• communicate primarily through email and blog.
• begin worship time whenever somebody starts singing.
• eat big meal together once a week as a part of worship.
• don’t have church van.
• hang around for long time after benediction.
• serve wine.
• discourage having vision statement or strategic growth plan.
• don’t have designated elders.
• sometimes be liturgical.
• make room for artists, thinkers, and kids from up the hill.
• reflect Trinitarian community.
• create and nurture such a community so that it hurts to leave after just one summer.

How does that strike you? Does that seem like the type of church you'd want be a part of? Too informal? Too pie in the sky? Do any of those bullets especially resonate with you? Do any make you think, "Ummm...no"?