The Church is The People Not The Building

Jesus has never confined the Church in a building or an edifice. From the very time He started His ministry, He was always in the streets, in the open field, in the seashore, in the community reaching and helping people. His kingdom has never been about palaces or building. His kingdom is in the hearts of man.


The last time He attended the Jewish meeting inside the synagogue was when he came to the front, stood in the middle, opened the book in Isaiah and read,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering the sight of the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

After he read it, he closed the book and started ministering to people. It was his declaration that his work and mission is not inside the building or in the temple but in the community. Jesus has no pulpit nor a church building of his own but He radically changed the lives of people in His days. Even before He ascended to heaven, his command was, "go ye...and preach the Gospel." It is not about a system, nor of organization not even of a building. It is all about reaching the community with His love. It is all about others for the Lord.


The Church is not a building because a building has no heart to care for people. It has no compassion to care for people. The Church is the believers who are passionate for Jesus and in reaching people for the Lord. As a church, are we like Jesus? How many of our activities focus on -


- preaching the Gospel to the poor?
- healing the broken hearted?
- delivering the captives?
- recovering the sight of the blind?
-setting free those that are bruised?
- preaching the breakthrough year of the Lord?


Or all we do is all for us believers and all for the name of activities and programs but no lives has been touched and changed?


When we misconceive that the Church is a building, we will be what we think we are.
All but rocks and stones. No liveliness. All walls, facilities and equipments but no life.
One of my radical friend who is passionate for Jesus, Olai Espiritu posted in her Facebook these quotes -

As long as we believe that the Church was born between four walls, we will always need four walls to have a church. A concept that will lead us to confusion. We must be focused on the mission entrusted to us, not just a church building or a gathering of believers.

Time for us to live who we really are and we are the people loved by God and saved by His grace. A radical truth: It is wrong to say, "I will go to church" because the church is not a building. It is better to say, "I will be with the Church today in worship."


The community is waiting for the church to come alive and for the church to touch them. The community will be amazed and blessed to discover that the Church has flesh and blood, and is not rocks and stones.