"Doing" Church

Last few days I have been thinking about "church". Especially how a church should "function", what are her "goals" & "objectives". A message I heard over the weekend made me think even more.

These are some of the questions that went thru my mind, and my short answers accroding to what I understand at this moment in time with what I know from the Bible:

1) What should the VISION of a church be?

- To glorify God

2) What should the PURPOSE of a church be?

- Worship God

- For the equipping of the saints

- For the edification of the saints

- Evangelism

3) What were the early churches PRAISED for?

- Perseverance thru persecution & sufferrings

- Sacrificial givings

- Love for the saints

4) What were the early churches WARNED against?

- False teachers

- Wolves

- Apostasy

- Worldliness

Obviouly the answers are way more "complex" than these short answers but I think they are pretty close to the heart of the questions raised.

So now my question is: How do we DO church DIFFERENTLY? Is that EVEN possible? What are the biblical mandates? What are the biblical guidelines?