We won’t change the world by only going to church. We will change the world by being the church.
What if by the power of God’s grace we weren’t meant to consume but meant to participate in as a body? What if we didn’t reduce church to something we just attend but something we belong to and participate in?
We are the church. We are not a corporation of religious professionals, dispensing spiritual goods and services in exchange for financial support. So, let’s be done with that kind of casual reduction of the church to a thing we attend. Rather, “not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10: 2