There is an important distinction scripture that we often blur.
Church people go to church.
God’s people are the church.
The church building was never meant to be a building that we attend once a week. It was meant to be a place of fellowship for people who need repentance, love, and transformation. It’s a place where people can get together and learn about God, feel Him, and worship Him.
Jesus didn’t say, “By this everyone will know you are My disciples, if you attend services.”
He said, “They would know us by our love“ (John 13:35).
Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 3:16that, “You yourselves are God’s temple, and God’s Spirit dwells in you.“
That can be both sobering and freeing.
It means:
Faith isn’t inherited by proximity.
Salvation isn’t proven by attendance.
Discipleship isn’t measured by activity
What matters is whether Jesus is formed in us.
The goal had never been to create church consumers. The goals have always been to form living stones.
“You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Yeshua the Messiah” – 1 Peter 2:5
So the question should be do you carry the presence of God into the world? It isn’t do you go to church?
Does Jesus rule your life and do others encounter Him through you?
Because buildings don’t change the world. People filled with the Holy Spirit do. The church is a place to learn how to be the best disciples for God we can be.
From Pity to Praise 