What is church?

Today we start a little build up to our @10 this week where we will ask, what is church? Consider the following thoughts, reflect and take notes then share with us on Sunday @10 your response to these 3 thoughts.

1. John O. Gooch reflects in his book Did you know? that Christianity was the first non-temple-based religion ever to emerge. In the minds of the early Christians, the people - not the architecture - constituted a sacred space. The early Christians understood that they themselves - corporately - were the temple of Go and the house of God.
   
2. In his book The Radical Christian, Arthur Wallis writes in the Old Testament, God had a sanctuary for His people; in the New, God has His people as a sanctuary.
   
3. Read the following bible verses to see what the bible says about church:
   1 Corinthians 3:16
   Galatians 6:10
   Ephesians 2:20-22
   Hebrews 3:5-66
   1 Timothy 3:15
   1 Peter 2:5 and 4:17 

Reflect on what you consider church should be ...  not what it was, or is ... but what you think it should be. Make a note and share with us on Sunday.