The children's saying goes, (use your hands now...) "This is the church. This is the steeple. Open the doors, and here's all the people." Although we commonly call the building where we worship "the church", the Bible uses the word "church" to designate people who are believers in Christ. The lyrics, "I am the church. You are the church. We are the church together..." give a more authentic picture of what the "church" is. The church is not a building. It is the people who gather to worship and then go out into the world to proclaim God's Good News. A journey of faith is learning how to be active and faithful members of the Body of Christ: the Church.
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That children's saying is pretty much engrained in our relgious culture, because I can remember singing that myself. I wonder how you would do your hands to show the people actually going out of the church to be engaged in outreach?
Like the picture!
Interesting that "church" brings to mind different things for different kinds of people.
Using fingers to show the people in the church building should be an indicator that the people in the church are what reaches out to others because our fingers are what we use to reach out.
Hmm. Maybe we need more thought on this as the body of Christ?
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