From David Kinney: Where does God live?

Where does God live?:


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Ephesians 2:19-22 (CEB) You are no longer strangers and aliens. Rather, you are fellow citizens with God’s people, and you belong to God’s household. As God’s household, you are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. The whole building is joined together in him, and it grows up into a temple that is dedicated to the Lord.  Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit.
For too long we have confused the church building as the church, or we’ve called it “the Lord’s house” but these four walls are not the church. This building is a tool, it’s a resource. You are the Lord’s house.
Paul says the foundation is scripture, the cornerstone is Christ and In Him YOU are built TOGETHER (in community) as the home of God.
It’s a terribly mixed message when we tell our little children that God lives in their heart where it’s loud and colorful and filled with joy and butterflies, but then we also teach that God also lives here in his quiet, stuffy building.
Which is it?
Friends, the church is us, God lives in us and we come to the building to love Him and to love each other; to be his sons and daughters. But if we are to live out our purpose as God’s church, we can not do it alone. God designed us to be in community, to live in community and to love in community because  our God is a community God.