Every single person who says, The Church is NOT the building, does so for a selfish ulterior motive. There is no godly reason to say such a thing. Who is it that says this kind of false demonic nonsense?
Pastors and other officials of the Church who do not want to address the real needs of their sheep, say this sort of thing to dodge their clear obligations to "feed the sheep." They don't want to let the sheep use the building to care for themselves, for example. So it is their way of shoving members out of the Church building. I never saw a church that did not try to play this game.
Members of churches will say this to dodge their clear obligation to support the church materially.
And those who want to bust up churches, or talk people out of membership in a church, or who want them to not support their church materially will use this heresy. In short, all the enemies of the Church are always quick to say, "The Church is NOT the building."
Fact is, the Church IS the Building. Jesus spoke in the Temple building and the hundreds of synagogue buildings throughout the holy land, and even when he taught in the open air, he taught on land owned by someone.
The way Jesus and Paul built the Church was by moving in on buildings known as synagogues and taking them over whenever possible. Even home churches take place in "buildings" being used as homes.
The Upper Room where the Holy Spirit fell on the Church was in a building that someone owned or paid rent on. The Last Supper took place in a building someone owned or rented. No one in their right mind, unless they are demonic, would ever make such a false and pernicious statement as, "The Church is NOT the building."
By building, of course, one means, any and all material things. It can include books, websites, billboards, radio and TV station, and so forth, and last but not least, money. So, anyone who speaks against the value and usefulness, and the absolute necessity, of all these material things, is no friend of God or His Church.
Now, this false doctrine is rife and running wild in the "Church World." And this very fact is the reason it must be countered before it destroys even more Churches than it already has. Of course no one should worship, buildings or other material things, but we should use them, and respect them as God intended us to do. After all every building on earth is owned lock, stock and barrel by God the Father.
This whole controversy akin to the Biblical admonition, "Faith without Works is void, and Works without Faith is filthy rags." A Church with no Buildings is a Faithless void, and likewise Buildings without a Church, (or other godly purpose) are filthy rags.
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