We spent this past month remembering who are as the Church, the people of God. Today we want to begin to explore the question: If God has made us all of those things, in Christ, what should we then be?" We begin to answer that by looking again in Ephesians 2:
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
We are God's beautiful building project. Now that may not sound so fantastic or romantic, but back then, Ephesus was filled with magnificent, beautiful, and highly functional buildings. It was a city to behold. There was also an attitude that their city was highly civilized and those outside were much less. Paul says: Christ's church is the most glorious building there is. Not only does it have the most solid foundation; it is a building that keeps on growing; it is alive; the One True Living God is inside. We need to consider being a part of Christ's church a great privilege and honor and do all we can to protect its beauty and unity. When we gather together, people need to be able to look and say: "God lives there."
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