The Church is God’s Home

The Bible says God put eternity in man’s heart. I didn’t know this as a young man, but a number of times I did experience looking into the sky at night with wonder and awe. My heart told me God is real, detailed, amazing.

Brought up in religion, I knew teachings about God, but I had never received Him. In spite of religious endeavor, I knew that God and I were not one or at peace together. I knew I needed God, but I was full of sinful inclinations. One day someone who had God in reality spoke to me, and I was infused with a believing ability to receive Jesus Christ. I knew the joy of having my past dissolved, and having Christ in me as the life-giving Spirit.

This satisfied me, but eventually I could not understand or accept the division among Christians. I saw clergy systems, politics, many different names among the believers, different persuasions and emphases, people building their own kingdoms, self glory. Yet I considered— I am one with every believer. There is no difference. Yet where was God’s purpose? Within my spirit, I could see the situation was not right, and within my spirit I had a hunger, a yearning to find God’s purpose.

One day I met some believers meeting in oneness, enjoying the blessing of God’s eternal life, and enjoying the recovery of the genuine church life. In the same way as I had known at the beginning of my Christian life that I had received the eternal One, so now I knew I had seen the church. In my spirit, I realised that I was home because God was home—in the church His home. There were no different names or persuasions—just the name of Christ and the ministry that genuinely builds up His Body, His enlargement and expression. There were no clergy or class system —every member was functioning in their capacity and according to their measure. There was one vision and one aim—the fulfillment of God’s plan to produce the New Jerusalem. Wonderful! Marvelous!   B.H

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