The Church Part 1

I want to begin a series of posts which I will do as often as possible on the church. In this post I want to address a few misconceptions people have about the church. These may come from people who claim to be Christians or people who are not Christians at all.

Have you ever wondered why there is a church? Have you ever wondered why there is even a need for the church? I am sure to those who are Christians this answer should be very simple. It is unfortunate though in the day which we live where the role of the church is downplayed.

One reason the role of the church is downplayed is many people view the church as a building. As Christians we add fuel to this fire many times by saying "we are going to church." We as believers do two things when we say this. First off we make church sound like a place. The church is not a building, rather the church is made up of believers in Jesus Christ. The second thing we do when we say this is we make church sound like something we have to do, or rather something we are being forced to do.

At Grace Community Church where I am a member we have many Korean Students that come to our church, or rather our community of believers. I have noticed something about them, which I think all believers should adopt, and that is they never say they are going to church on Sunday. Rather what they will say is we are going to Worship. I really like this because it does away with many of the notions unbelievers have about the church.

Church also many times is seen as a social club or something to that affect. Believe it or not there are people who just attend church to see other people. Fellowship is a good thing do not get me wrong here. On Sundays I thoroughly enjoy seeing my fellow believers in Christ and love to join them in worship through song and listening to the word of God through preaching. But the main reason I go to church is to worship and glorify God. It is not just merely to see people. In small towns like Berea it is all to common for people to go to church to build their business or to get votes to get an elected position. All of these fall short because if a person is a true believer everything they do, including going to church, is to be done for the SOLE PURPOSE of glorifying God (1Cor. 10:31).

I hope this has been somewhat helpful. I realize there was not much here about what the Bible says about the church. I thought it would be beneficial to look at some common misconceptions about the church before we dive in. Until next time.