Why do we have a church? 

I am often asked 'why do we have church', along with 'what is your church like' or 'what size is your congregation'? 

This makes me wonder why they asked these questions. If church and God are so important to them, why they don't ask these questions instead:  'Do you have kind loving people who Love God?' 'Do you help one another?' 'Do you care for and feed people?' 

My usual answer is this: 'just come and meet us; see us for yourself.' What ISN'T important to me is how big our building is, or what it looks like. Walls and size does not define us.

 

What I believe is important is that we do need a place, where we can come together and pray to God, to celebrate communion and have fellowship. 

Giving our current situation, our homes are our churches and meeting places, for us and our families. Our services, and communion, come to you via the internet, via technology. 

It's still the same service, albeit a little shorter than usual but you can see it at the same time, in the same format, with the same communion. 

So, what is our church like? My definition of our church is this: a church is not a church until things have happened in it; until people have prayed in it, laughed in it, cried in it, shared their troubles in it, received healing in it, shared food in it, had baptisms, weddings and, of course, shared memories of things that have happened in it, sung songs together and told stories. 

We are the place where God resides; God is in the walls; God is imbued in the people; God is in the hearts of all who are part of our church - whether near or far. 

It's the people who make up the church; some churches have walls, some don't; we all have the same common denominator - God - who lives inside us all. May God continue you to bless you every day, Amen