THIS IS THE CHURCH

Religion never was, nor is meant to be an institution.  It is a way of life.  The tabernacle was the Presence of God; it was movable and fluid.  When God moved, it was moved; when God rested, it rested.  It was not built to stay in one place forever.  Only dead buildings do that.  Only institutionalized religion does that.

          “Would you build me a house to dwell in?  I have not lived in a house

            since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this

            day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.  In all

            places where I have moved with all of my people of Israel, did I

            speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded

            to shepherd my people Israel saying, ‘Why have you not built me a

            house of cedar “(2 Samuel 7:5, 6)?

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.  He is also the fulfillment of the temple.  PRESENCE, God’s Presence is what is to identify Christians.  Where two or three are gathered with Jesus in the midst, that is the Church.