Brick and mortar.
From my earliest memories, I can remember going to a church regularly. Raised in a baptist home, my mom modeled the faithful Christian soldier all my life.
The small country church she attended didn’t have Sunday school, so she sent us to the First Baptist Church down the street.
I’m so thankful for her commitment to start us out learning about God. Church is an important part of my life, but it’s more than the building, it’s the people. I love my church family, the committed leaders and our determination to tell others about how to get to Heaven.
The church is everywhere we are, not where we go on Sunday.
This has become to mean so much more to me since I started going on short-term mission trips. It made me realize that there are so many people who don’t have a church to go to; they don’t have the love and support of a church family.
That’s where we come in. Yes, you and me. We are to be the church, the light in this dark world.
Don’t just go to church, be the church.
John 2:19-22 - “Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.”