A friend of mine asked me this the other day; so i'll put it up here for everybody to give their input before i give mine (and so i can collect my thoughts). . . In fact, let's make a series out of it.
I'll get everybody started with semantics;
First, it wouldn't be called church, a church building, a local church, church service, going to church, going to worship or many of the things we use now. If the church is the people, then what we call "church" today would really be "a meeting of a congregation at a temple". and service denotes doing something other than singing or sitting on your duff (to me anyway).
what would you call it? would you call it anything? does it have to have a name? (please keep the answers to a couple of lines.)
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i'm actually leaning more towards dumping this post; the church should be too busy doing things to develop an identity or, rather, the identity should be a natural occurance of the church in action.
otherwise we're like everybody else, naming something and then trying to live up to it (or worse, just letting the name represent us).
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