What is a Church???

 When you are raised in a family that attended church on Sundays it was something that you did because you were told to.  Attending church became routine, and then there was usually a good dinner afterwards.  Later on in life you are still going but don't really understand what a church really is.  Is a Church a building or it's people??  I never thought about this until recently in my life.  A building is just a building, but a church is a gathering of like minded people who try their best to walk the straight and narrow.  Here's the crazy part, no matter how much you try sin will happen.  We are all sinners.  A church is then all these people who love and care for you and will help to pick you up when you fall off that path.  God is there as well, ALWAYS.  Matthew 18:20 says "For where two or three gather in my name I am among them."  Is this not an encouraging statement?  Does this not fill you with hope??  God isn't some far away creator who looks at us as petty little insects and a burden, He will come and join us at all times.  You can be in his actual presence whenever you want, sometimes when you don't want it as well.  You don't have to be in a building labeled a Church to praise Him.  Thank Him for everything, and ask for help because we all need help.  God is there to lift our burdens and lighten the load, not to make it heavier.  A Church is it's people not a building.  Gather and Worship The Lord and see how things change.  Allow God to work through you and just maybe others lives can be changed as well.  What are you waiting for??  Your Father loves you and is watching waiting but ever present.  You are part of His Plan.