The Body—God’s Church

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What is God’s church? What does God’s church look like and how does God’s church function in the world?

The church is not a building, or a place where we go. The church is the people of God—the Body of Jesus Christ. We are God’s church. We are the dwelling place of the Spirit of God, living out our faith in Jesus in the world.

The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth about who they were as God’s church, saying, “For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.” (1 Corinthians 3:9, ESV).

The church is the gathering of believers, the gathering of followers of Jesus, doing the work of God as the people of God in the world.

Paul also asked this question of the church in Corinth, inquiring, “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16, ESV).

God’s Holy Spirit indwells the follower of Jesus, so that the follower of Jesus can embody Jesus Christ to the world. We are the church—the people of God—living out our faith in Jesus in the world through the presence of God in us.

May we be the body of Jesus—the church, as we live out our faith in Jesus in the world, through the Spirit of God living in us.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, (Proper 15): “Keep your Church, O Lord, by your perpetual mercy; and because without you the frailty of our nature causes us to fall, keep us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable for our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book Of Common Prayer, 2019).

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