What's a Church (not)?

Someone again asked, "So, where's your church going to be?'

I explained, "For us, Church is the people, not a place.
We'll be all over, doing different things."

"Yeah, but where?"

"All over. We do weekly services in three different places.
We host very unusual activities in several different more."

"But where's your Church going to be?"

"The Church is the people, they come and go. They're on the move!"

"But where's the building?"

"We'll hold the musical and monthly preview services
December through March at Perryville High School.
But we'll move around to different parts of the area,
because people around here travel in seven directions,
and there is no central 'there' where people work and play."

"But where will the Church be?"

"The people are the Church and we have to go find them,
moving around to different places to find who God wants
to gather together into the Rivers of Life."

"But where are you going to build your church, a building?"

"The Church is not a building. We're building a people."

80% of the average congregation's time, money and energy
is focused on the building: decorating, buying, heating,
repairing, going to it, talking/worrying/complaining about it.

What if from the very start of a new congregation,
we focused that 80% time, money and energy on people?
Building, training, healing, supporting, encouraging,
firing up, fixing, FOLLOWING, talking/laughing/crying with
People.

God does not fill buildings will His permanent Holy Spirit.
We are the dwelling places of God.
We are Christ's body.
We are Church.