The Church & The Building that Houses the Church

In colloquial usage, whenever Christians say ‘church’, they typically refer to services at which Christians gather to pray, fellowship, encourage one another, and experience presence of God together in one place, in one building. Hence, they say stuff like, ‘we are headed to church’, or ‘are you going to church today’?

If we get technical and particular, Christians in fact never go to church. Christians are the ‘Church of Jesus Christ’. Whether Christians are at home, at work, at play, romancing their spouses, or raising their children, they are the ‘Church of Jesus Christ’. For those who care for supporting evidence, check out both Jesus’ words and words of Apostle Paul (commentary in brackets mine).

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father (Jesus declares that location will cease to matter for worship of God). But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship Him. God is Spirit (God is Immanent, everywhere), and those who worship Him must worship in spirit (worship is anywhere God is, which is everywhere) and truth (living the truth that is character of God — Love — everywhere is to worship God) — John 4:21,23–25.”