I forgot I to go to a church multiple times a week, but its a coffee house inside a church. Once in awhile you'll hear corny Christian rock bands playing in the adjacent building. The church itself doesn't have actual Sunday sermons, but it seems they just have random meeting times at certain locations(houses, gym) and gather up.
I've never had an interest in the community aspect of church though. Some of the Quaker meetings were interesting because there is no leader or preacher, just people standing up to speak. Most often it was to bring up some issue around the world where there is fighting. Sometimes an old lady would just quietly start singing a hymn in her seat, then someone would mention their ailing sister, and then another would talk about Ghandi. Following this, a three minute pause of silence would linger until someone would ask everyone to reconsider what was said last week, and amend comments by others. It's a unique experience.
On the other end of the spectrum are the really huge Christian churches which run like a tight little business. I call these the Walmart Churches, and they have gift shops and coffee shops inside, as well as a huge auditoriums where a Sunday sermon becomes biblical theatrical performance. On stage, hanging from wires spins the cirque de soleil ballet, a preacher in jeans going on about the birth of jesus, and a twenty year old walking the aisles in a Moses costume. The managers of these churches gather in as big an audience as they can for donations, and then expand the church with the money. One of the California ones is called Bay Street I think.
