I heard of a man who said to the preacher, “I want to sing in your choir.” The preacher replied, “But you don’t belong here. Where do you have your membership?” He answered, “I don’t belong to any local church. I belong to the invisible church.” The pastor said, “Then I suggest that you join the invisible choir.”
The truth is that God created the church to be seen and heard. The word translated “church” in the English Bible is ekklesia. This word is the combination of the Greek kaleo (to call), with the prefix ek (out). Thus, the word means “the called-out ones.”
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
The church is an organism, not an organization.
Give it some thought.
Gary