Where do you go Sunday morning? What is the building called? Of what are you a member?
The word often rendered "church" in English is the Greek word ekklesia. It can mean a gathering, a group of believers, or even the sum collective of all Christian believers in the world.
What it does not refer to is a building.
So you can go to church, and you can go to the church, the church can come to you, but you cannot meet in a church, you cannot hold an event at the church, and a church can't burn down.
The church is people.
When a speaker says "good morning church," he's talking to you, not the building.
How does that change your outlook on "the church?"
The word often rendered "church" in English is the Greek word ekklesia. It can mean a gathering, a group of believers, or even the sum collective of all Christian believers in the world.
What it does not refer to is a building.
So you can go to church, and you can go to the church, the church can come to you, but you cannot meet in a church, you cannot hold an event at the church, and a church can't burn down.
The church is people.
When a speaker says "good morning church," he's talking to you, not the building.
How does that change your outlook on "the church?"
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