A Shift from Doctrine to Practice

Oh the times they are a changing, at least I hope they are. As I sat with my pregnant wife this morning eating Breakfast at a local eatery Gritz I came upon a startling revelation. Maybe the church should not dispense doctrine. Now please do not hear me to say that it should not talk theology, any time a person talks God, humanity, and the world they are talking theology. It is when this theology moves from ideals to beliefs and the church begins to dispense it in a dogmatic fashion (I probably am thinking about this because a similar line from Dogma) When I see Jesus, he seems to provoke the people to action not didactical belief structures.
Is it the plight of the church to spend more time money and effort doing doctrine rather than the reconciling work of Christ in the world? If we follow this model than our theology will develop from our practice and not the other way around. I cannot lie, this model does sound scary and is radically different from the current model, but there seems to be a hope in the unity that it could possibly bring. If we were united by our practice then our theology could be different and it not mean the destruction of the unity. It is obvious we are going to disagree in our thoughts can we not focus on our actions then and find continuity in our practice? I wonder what would happen if we stop trying to live in churches characterized by doctrine and begin to live in missional communities of practice?
The discussion about faith and works becomes null and void at that point because they could not be separated, they would be one in the same.
Pax

Stephen