Church Purpose?

Lately I've been thinking a lot about church. I've also been reading a lot about churches, and even visiting some local congregations.

I hear a lot of discussions about what can be done at the church to make it more appealing to non-christians. But I wonder, why do we want people not in the church being the basis for what the church should be? I understand reaching out through evangelism, but isn't evangelism a command to every individual christian instead of the church?

Isn't the church for Christians? Having grown up in the church, I don't have the perspective of a non-christian entering a church for the first time. But I don't see the church as the place where evangelism takes place. It takes place "in the field". I don't think someone will walk through the doors of a church and suddenly "get it".

If church exists to worship God, equip christians, and encourage/help each other, how does someone without a spiritual relationship with Christ or Christians do that? Doesn't that spiritual connection need to take place first?

There are a lot of church programs developed to get people to fill the pews. There is a lot of interest in being a church to be driven by this purpose rather than being scripture driven. Christianity is about relationships not programs.

The focus of the church as a body should be on the worship, equiping, and encouraging of each other. It shouldn't be focused on their marketing appeal.