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Sunday, September 20, 2009

'What church do you go to?'

I would think this would be a silly question to ask, but oh do I ask it all too often when meeting with new christian friends. I'll explain why.

Aren't we the body of Christ? I don't think the Bible describes the church as a place, more like a body of people. The church is not a building or a place; it's all of us christians. We are the church.

So don't you think it's silly to ask that question? It'll be like asking, 'So which Singaporean do you go to?' Sounds weird? It probably is.

But with all things said and done, I think we are too steep in the world's system to get out of it. It's like in the Matrix when the bad guy got freed from the matrix, but he opted to return to be imprisoned.

Humans got to have order, systems and organisations. To have a sense of control, to have a false sense of security that we are able to somehow have a say in whatever will happen.

The most powerful thing about the gospel is that it liberates us from the concept that God dwells in any building. For a people steeped in the rites of temple worship this was either great or terrible news. His followers thought it was great. No longer did they have to think of God as cloaked in the recesses of the temple, available only to special people at select times.

Before Stephen was to be stoned to death he said, 'The Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands.' That's when the Sanhedrins turned on him. It reminded them of Jesus' challenge to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days. People can get very touchy about their buildings, especially if they think God dwells in them.

Are we like this today? Replace going to the temple with going to church, temple rites with church programmes. How we can do things a certain way, and one will be frowned upon if he does things differently. How we have 'rules and regulations', emphasize church membership, have a board of directors. Seem strangely familiar to how 'church' was done before Jesus came.

What does the church really means to you?

I'll leave this thought with you as I go off to sleep. I'm really tired.
Bye bye.

10:11 PM