Church..basic or not?

What I have come to realize over the years is that the way that I have viewed church has transformed to an institutionalized organization to a body of beleivers growing with God through meeting with him through prayer, worship, and genuine learning from each other. This has transformed from the beginning of my view of what the church really looks like when I went to my dad's church to how I have seen the spiritual decline in the church and a promotion of a striving for leadership to mutual growth within the body. This has come through different classes where I have realized that my own view of the church was unhealthy and that basically some of the practices within the church did not allow other beleivers to really participate in the life of the church. The basic premise of what I am saying is that every believer is required to be involved because this is the calling when people become christians. It is not passively sit in pews and listen to worship and not be invovled with the spiritual life of the church but it is to be actively involved by using the spiritual gifts that we have been given. Prayer and worship as a body where believers are given the chance to contribute and where every person grows in the community. This is what my perception of the church is now and I think that it is refreshing to me that people are actually seeing how the church is in need of reform and that we need to change the way we do things.