What is the church? When you strip away all our notions, traditions, cultural expectations and contrived interpretations, what is the church? We get so caught up defining the "church universal" and the "church local." I wonder if our terminology war is merely an evidence of our failed understanding.
Church is not "more than a building". That statement implies that the building might still be a part of it. Church is not a building in any sense.
Liturgy is cool, but it is not church. Singing is a profound part of worship, but it is not church. Special services, holiday cantatas, candle light vigils, are all conjured up when our "christian ghetto" dwellers think of church and yet I think these images have crowded out true church.
We have been so long without it that few of us even feel the hunger pangs any more.
I wonder if we have lost the church. More on this thought to come.
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