Rather than thinking of the church as a place where our hearts are filled to compensate for the spiritual deficit of the preceding week, we should strive to see it as a point of origin. A place, and community from which we are actually over-filled with the intention that the life of Christ in the Gospel would spill out of us onto the lives of people we see and converse with throughout the week.
If the church were not meant to be an advancing institution Jesus would not have said "Upon this rock [which is faith...not Peter] will I build my church, and the gates of Hell will not withstand it."
Well put!
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