Is it church?

Well it's the morning after the night before. I was just reflecting and thinking through last night. I still feel really hopeful and excited about the project or do I dare call it Church! What is church? I question that I have been trying to answer for the last 10 years. I've come to the conclusion that church is (or at least should be) a God-centred community. Well there was definitely a sense of community last night, partly due to the venue which is such a warm and welcoming place, with Landlords that are so friendly (they are really behind bare soul and pushing it at any opportunity even though they are not church -goers) they are definitely people of piece - to use some good evangelic jargon. Anyway, community, the other great feature was that most people already knew someone there, whether through my gospel choir or a neighbour or a regular at the bar and people were talking to one another.

The God-centred bit is a bit harder to quantify I don't know everyone's motives for being there, one guy was just there by accident. Though all the songs we sung were 'secular' (not that I believe there is such a thing, only creativity that honours God or creativity that does not) as a band we were worshiping through them. People's poetry also reflected a god-wards focus even if it was not explicit.
Some may argue that to be church there needs to be some teaching or discipleship, which I would agree with. Last night there were some fantastic conversations going on around the theme of hope. A friend of mine had the idea of putting questions on beer mats. This went down brilliantly. I had long discussions with one guy about 'does there need to be an external spiritual force for us to have hope'.
The element that was possibly missing was prayer. I had planned to have a minutes silence for the victims of the Haiti earthquake where people could pray/think about/send out positive vibes to the victims. But I forgot! Oh well.
So I think I can safely say we now have a church. I'm thinking of setting up a facebook group so people can interact between months hopefully that will become a bit of a online creative community.