Tuesday, February 05, 2008

What is the church?

Rick shared something that I have long held to, "The Church is the people, not the steeple. It is a myth that you need a building to build a church."

He would know, his congregation was 10,000 people before they built their own building.

--Ben

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah, but they did build a church.

Ben Rainey said...

Anon,

You're right on. They built a church, then they built a building.

--Ben

Anonymous said...

Thought about this before posting. I know your thoughts are we are a church without walls. However, there comes a time when you have to plant roots somewhere. Not wait until you are 10,000 strong.

Just my thoughts expressed once again.
I think with the plans that you have talked about you should also think financially as well. Internship,office,cost of maintenance on truck wear and tear on all the equipment all combined could lead into BIG DOLLARS.

There's my 2 cents for what it is worth???????????????

Janet