The Church is the People
Picture a church basement classroom. Small children sitting side by side cross-legged on a mat, looking up at a teacher as she squats precariously on the edge of a much too small child's chair. She instructs them to hold their hands up in front of them, interlacing their fingers together, index fingers touching to form a steeple, thumbs forming the doors and they sing; the church is not a building, the church is not a steeple, the church is not a resting place, the church is the people. They open their thumbs and wiggle their fingers and instil in their minds the visual representation of how the people they meet on Sunday are the integral part of church, not the building. In that moment the church become a relationship instead of an institution. The church is the people. "David was allowed to keep Bathsheba." Our pastor says when he is asked to step down in the wake of the discovery of his affair. He is David in this story, I suppose. She...