The Whole Building

In a home fellowship hosted by Greg and Heather that Anita and I go to we read through Ephesians 2. The second part (verses 11 through 22) deals with our relationship with Christ and with other Christians. The Lord led us towards further discussion of our relationship with each other and what we are seeing in our church.

A comment Greg made is it seems folks treat church as a Sunday morning event. When in practical application of the Word the members of the local church should be involved with each other's lives at least to some degree. I think we all concurred.

Ephesians 2:19-22 supports this. Verse 21 says, "In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit."

In my mind this paints a picture of a community of believers. It looks to me believers should be in "church" 7 days a week, not just visiting each other during the Sunday morning event. It should be a constant reminder to our local church since we rent space for the service that church is not a physical building, rather it is "God's people and members of God's household" (v19).