When it comes to "being the Church" it is important that we stop to ask what Christ wanted us to be. In John 17 He pours out His heart to the Father about what He envisioned for us:
20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Christ wants us to experience the oneness that He and the Father have enjoyed forever. It is a oneness of relationship, purpose, and presence that can be experienced nowhere else in the world. The big thing is that we can only do this together as we all know Him better and become part of His plan for us. This is why He came; this is why He died; this is why He returned to the Father; this is why He is coming back for us. Are you on board with that?
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