Churchianity

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error is the perspective people often have concerning the specific church they attend. I have observed how many think a church building is usually the only place where they can most feel God's presence (such as during the worship music), hear most what God has to say to them (from the preacher or other person), or most see God work supernatural miracles (such as speaking in tongues or physical healings)...as if this can only truly take place there. However, not only does this kind of religious position contradict the entirety of Church history, but some of the clearest teachings of the Bible itself. I will point out though, I believe God deals with us within the confines of our chosen and limited expectations, misguided as some of them may be, but that is a subject of another discussion.
The oddity of this perspective first struck me when I first learned that the first building officially called a "church" did not even exist until after the 300s (1). Until this time, ...

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to be clear in saying changed culturally and circumstantially (church), not fundamentally (Church). Do you see the difference and the importance of marking that difference?
The truth is that what makes the Church what it is, its quintessential reality, is that it is made up of living breathing people themselves as opposed to any man-made structure or program. "Do you not discern and understand that you are God's temple (His sanctuary), and that God's Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]?...do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you" - 1 ...

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