Our little
granddaughter, who is attending a preschool, was one day asked by her teachers
what she wanted to be when she grows up. She answered, "A church."
They asked her several times and each time she responded with the same answer.
Upon
hearing this story, there have been several responses to her statement. One
lady said, "Somebody needs to sit her down and explain to her what a
church is." I'm thinking to myself, "No Ma'am, somebody needs to
explain to you what a church is."
A church
isn't a building in which we meet. It is the people, who are members, which
make up the body of Christ.
Many people
have been taught the church is holy, and we are to show reverence toward it. No
running. Sit still. No drinks. Take your hat off … and the list goes on. They
will pass this teaching down to their children.
These same
people will do sinful things to their bodies and think nothing about it. We should
be respectful in the building where we worship but the most important thing to
remember is that our body is actually the temple of the Holy Spirit. We need to
spend each day making sure that it's our bodies that we are to keep clean and
pure.
I hope my
granddaughter never quits saying she wants to be, "A church" when she
grows up. Our body is the temple of God.
What? Know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have
of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (I Corinthians
6:19-20)
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