The Church is not the Building, The Building is not the Church
Building the biggest, largest or costliest auditorium for your church means nothing to Almighty God if His Holy Spirit is absent from your building.
As my mother of blessed memory, Mrs. Gladys Unuamaighiuwa Eke repeated again and again that THE HOLY SPIRIT of God does not dwell in the house built by hands; but dwells in the house built in the hearts of the true believers of God.
It is still baffling to me that those who claim to be ministers of God who have repeatedly read the command of our MESSIAH JESUS Christ clearly gave as our mission on earth which is the Great Commission as written in Matthew 28:19-20:
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.":
Yet they are engaged in childish and foolish bragging rights to who has built the largest church building or auditorium in the world!
They are competing for the Guinness Book of World Records instead of competing for the lost and wandering souls of the confused and ignorant humans our Lord JESUS Christ commanded us to find and guide to redemption and salvation.
I ask them, how much have you spent on evangelism in the mission fields compared to how much you have spent on building your gangantic auditoriums?
How much have you spent on charity compared to your gangantic auditoriums?
What determines the size of your church is not the size of the building, but the numbers of the true believers who fellowship and worship Almighty God in Spirit and in Truth.
John 4:24:
"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
John 8:32
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
SHALOM!
- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
The Publisher/Editor,
The Rhema Blog via #Google
Since 2005
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