A few weeks ago, I blogged about the fact that in Christ, we are all truly one. One Christ died for all of the sins of all of us. Whether you go to Macedonia North Baptist Hill Presbyterian Ethnic Community Church or wherever you may choose, you are still One Body in Christ.
The thing is, we like to put our "churches", or congregation of people in buildings. That is not the problem. The problem arises when we start to think of these various buildings as defining the church. We can even get to the point of thinking that because you have a three thousand per week congregation on average, a four million dollar paid off facility, and a fat paycheck every month, you must have a good church in the eyes of God.
While there is nothing wrong with those things necessarily alone if they either have the intention of or are fruits from a relationship with God, there are two things to caution in that statement. The first thing is that the goal is to bring people to Christ and have their eyes and hearts open to God, and if that goal is being met, then the building that you inhabit on Sunday morning has the right things occurring inside of it. The other thing to caution is that its not your church, it two ways. You dont own it, God does, and your congregation are by no means the only ones involved. We as Christians are the church!
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