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For a long time I thought that worshiping God on your own was good enough. But then I discovered something. You spend 6 days a week living in a world where if you don't watch out for Number One, nobody else is expected to. Where it is normal to swear at people. Where backstabbing is an accepted way to get ahead. We are square pegs in a world filled with round holes, and we are -supposed- to be different from the world. But the world will encourage you to cut corners and relax restrictions in order to fit in. "Just one lie won't hurt." "I know it's wrong, but just this once..."
To continue the metaphor: Church is the place where all the holes are square. It's where we help each other identify and get repairs for the damage the world has been causing to us. It's not a place for perfect people. (And if it were, it would be empty.) It's not a place that you have to be good enough before you can walk in. (And if it makes you feel that way, find a new one.) Ideally, church is a place where you hold each other accountable in love to grow closer to God and to remove the things in your life that are too much of a distraction from God.
This does not mean that church has to be an organized religion. A Christian family is a small church. A group of friends who get together regularly to study the Bible, worship together, pray together, and help each other grow in the Lord is a church.
And a building where everybody just comes for an hour on Sunday because it looks good is NOT a church. Even if it has a pastor and a steeple.
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