This is what actually happens, and its interest is in how closely it tracks a Protestant service while denying every one of its premises. People stand and sing pop songs together with a live band — the songs are chosen for singability rather than message — then sit for a talk from a speaker who knows something about a subject, a reading, and a moment of quiet that is explicitly not prayer. Then more singing, then tea, and the tea is not incidental: the stated purpose of the format is that people stay afterwards. Some chapters run Live Better small groups between assemblies, where members help each other with concrete life goals, which is the closest the movement comes to pastoral care. Most chapters meet monthly rather than weekly, which is itself an admission about volunteer capacity.