(for those of you who don't know about our church we are in the process of moving from meeting in a school cafeteria into a more permanent location which is a remodeled skating rink)
this morning on the way home from worship i was having a conversation with my wife. she was just leaving wal-mart and i was on my way home from helping load out all of our equipment. i asked where she was and she stumbled a bit. she said "i don't know if i am supposed to say in front of the church or the skating rink." we laughed a little at the thought of not knowing what to call the "place" where our church will meet.
somewhere along the way a good number of believers have decided the church is a place. according to the Bible the church is not a place but rather a people. i think one of the very best things for the people at c|Life has been the fact that we haven't had a definite location for the past two and a half years. we have been operating in rented space. why has this been good for us? i think it has been a good reminder to us that we are the church...regardless of where we meet. it reminds us that we are the church....at work, at wal-mart, at home, and etc.
as we prepare to move into our new location in a couple of weeks i hope we can continue to live out the reality that we are the church....not the renovated skating rink. what about you? when you hear the word "church" do you think of a place or of a group of people?
take away: be the church.
p.s. the answer to the title is "go to the skating rink and be the church"
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