The Building often occupies much of the Christian movement's focus,
but it is the Movement which is the true Church.
Christ seldom spoke or worked in a building
yet he is the foundation of the Church.

We may only find holiness, divinity, in the building,
but that is because that is where we look.
We fail to seek for God elsewhere.

The true purpose of the Church can often be masked
by the attention given to the building
and the rites performed within it
for the promotion of those
performing them.

The "House of God" is a pregnant term, invented
to give standing to fixed religious centres
and thus a focus for religious rites
created to endorse fruitful
religious fervour.

Yet Jesus and the prophets denied
such mercenary and power-driven
aspects of religion.

The ancient Jewish prophets even denied
the standing and purposes
of organised religion.