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Livestreams of services have resumed and will be available here: https://narrabrianglican.org/live/. Physical attendance is still possible with masks and registration on arrival still required.
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What is the purpose of church?
One of the key images the Bible uses for church, in the New Testament, is 'body' - have a look at 1 Corinthians 12:12ff...
Implicit, even explicit, in this image are two truths:
(i) The body must be together to be the body. A pinkie separated from the body, 'refusing' to be part of the body or not even being 'joined' to the body - well, that is not a pinkie but a piece of dead flesh!
(ii) The purpose of the body is... to be a body. The body exists to be a body.
In this sense, the imagery works to emphasise two of the key points we have learned about church over the last few weeks: it is a physical gathering in one place, at one time; and, it exists for the purpose of its own existence (a gathering with God).
To this end, let me suggest two important applications:
(i) Being AT church matters. Who wants to be dead flesh?
(ii) Being the church matters. Who wouldn't want to be part of the climax of history - and who would want to reduce it to a means to something else?
Some stuff worth reading...
www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/spiritual-covid-and-losing-your-taste-for-god/
Spiritual COVID and Losing Your Taste for God
www.thegospelcoalition.org
Trevin Wax shares some thoughts on losing taste and smell when he had COVID and what it means for the Christian to “taste and see that the Lord is good.”