Is your church a public space or place?
Does this question come to your mind while in your church? And have you resolved this? or did you just throw this thought aside and continue on? Note that I am not saying if your church is in the public space. Have you ever read of this in the Bible about what Christ did when He was confronted with the exact same situation?
The Church.
Believers of Christ are the Body of Christ(1Cor 12:27). And the coming together of believers of Christ in a "place or space" to worship God alone, is called Church. The Church therefore is the Body of Christ dedicated to the worship of our Father, God in heaven. The church is the "PRIVATE" property of Christ - the kingdom of God! And It Must retain the ordinances and protocols of worship, of the Kingdom. The Church,therefore is a private space/place open to the public, and not the other way round as we have it today.
"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Rom 14:17, and with all of the "displays" we have in many churches today, where is the righteousness in the presence of God? Or have we forgotten that our coming together is to worship God IN His presence, and not His absence!? The fullness of joy and peace is in His presence(Ps.16:11), not His absence. The "meat and drink" of pleasure we display before God is meant for the outside of the worship space.
"And the Jews'
passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the
temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of
money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove
them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out
the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that
sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise."(John 2:13-16).
What Christ is saying here is that the place of worship (i.e, the Father's house) is NOT the place of display of all
kinds of immoralities before the Father, but of reverent fear and
adoration of God.
What else can I say about the church of Christ? What else than to encourage you in carefully considering your place of worship, and make the right corrections. Do as Christ did,and stay the course of worship of the Most Adorable Father,the Creator of everything!
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