A church without a building can still thrive, but having a place to call our own has deepened our ability to live out our calling.
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I grew up hearing that “the church is the people, not the building.” And while that’s technically true (the church is the redeemed people of God), the statement came within a broader theology—sometimes stated, sometimes implied—that treated the material realm as secondary and focused instead on souls. Having spent most of my life going to church in (rented) schools, it was easy for me to champion the church’s spiritual nature and downplay the role of buildings.
This way of thinking, however, isn’t rooted in Scripture but in Greek Gnosticism—a perspective that sees bodies, buildings, and even creation as insignificant in light of spiritual realities.
