Is the Church really a building?

[GasTank]

C'mon of course it isn't we are Jesus calls us the Church. So it isn't a building or something we do, once you trust Jesus you are a member of the Church.
-GasTank-

[Brutus/HisCatalyst]

Nope the church is our hearts.:cool:

[aReformedPatriot]

My friend Jason has been coming to the Baptist church with me. One of his big contentions is that its not really a church because it doesnt look like one - he comes from the RC areas and they have elaborate beautiful buildings.

But yes, God does not reside in buildings made of stone, he lives in our hearts and we as individuals make up the body of Christ - his church.

[QustantinahQuaker]

A church should be whereever you go. To me, a church is where ever you glorify the Lord. This should mean that every building and every land can be or is a church. The greatest church of all is in the heard. This is where the Beloved is most powerful.

[GasTank]

Can you give me a verse that says Church is what we do , or that it's a building?
-GasTank-

[RED that's ME]

The church is God's people not a building. The building is just a place where God's people meet. The purpose of the church is to gather to edify, exhort, teach, evangelize, restore, & to worship God together as a group of people.

The Bible teaches us to worship together in order to encourage the saints. Hebrews 10:25 says, "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another....."

The Bible also teaches us that Christians are to meet together on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 16:2). We cannot do all God has given us to do unless we meet together (see Ephesians 5:19; I Corinthians 16:2). Neither, can we follow the example of the early Christians in the Bible (I Corinthians 11; I Corinthians 14).
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Psalm 40:3 "And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto

our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD."

[aReformedPatriot]

1Co 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

[Jessica Lauren]

I don't believe it to be the building itself, but the people who put together that building, and are in it.

[Crazy Liz]

Yes!

The church is not just some abstract thing in the individual Christian's heart. It is a relationship a Christian belongs to.

Although it extends beyond the local gathering, the local gathering is essential.