To hang out, spend unstructured time together. "Wanna kick it this weekend?" Implies unplanned, relaxed togetherness — the opposite of a scheduled "playdate."
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers" (Acts 2:42). Early Christian koinōnia looked a lot like "kicking it" — meals together, long conversations, shared life. Modern American Christianity has often replaced this with calendared 60-minute meetings. Recover the instinct to just hang out with brothers and sisters — no agenda, no program, shared time as the ministry.
The lost art of unscheduled fellowship. The early Church lived on this; modern Christians rarely practice it.
Calendar-driven life has killed the art of just showing up. Ancient near-Eastern culture (and biblical culture) assumed long hours of shared presence: meals that stretched for hours, walks together, sitting in the gate, talking across the wall. Modern Christians schedule "life group" for 75 minutes and call it community. Recover kicking it: long Sunday lunches, front-porch hours, Saturday afternoons where nothing is scheduled and neighbors come by. The early Church grew partly because Christians had time for each other.
Acts 2:46 — "And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts."
Hebrews 10:24-25 — "Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together."
Ecclesiastes 4:9 — "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil."
The early Church lived on kicking it — unscheduled shared time. Calendar-driven "community" is a flat substitute. Put the phone down and just be with people.
“We just kicked it at Dave's place all afternoon.”
“Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts.”