What Kind Of House Will You Build For Me?

The Church isn't a building where people comfortably gather once or twice a week, each giving roughly ten percent of his/her income to pay for the church's expensive mortgage, the church's continual building improvement and expansion projects, the church's increasingly modern sound equipment, and the salaries of the church's pastors, who in today's times are becoming more selfish, egotistical, and interested only in pleasing the lukewarm congregats and themselves, and thus reticent to preach anything except partial truths from God's Word, or to zealously evangelize the lost.

The Bible says that God does not live in temples built by human hands.

"The God who made the world

and everything in it,

is the Lord of heaven and earth,

and does not live in temples built by human hands."

Acts 17:24 (NIV)

"However, the Most High does not live

in houses made by human hands.

As the prophets says: 'Heaven is my throne,

and the earth is my footstool.

What kind of house will you build for me?

says the Lord.

Or where will my resting place be?

Has not my hand made all these things?'

You stiff-necked people!

Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised.

You are just like your ancestors:

You always resist the Holy Spirit!"

Acts 7:48-51 (NIV)

God through His Holy Spirit lives in each of those who has genuinely given his/her heart and life to Him.

"Do you not know that your body

is a temple of the Holy Spirit,

who is in you,

whom you have received from God?

You are not your own."

Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)

The Church is the Body of Christ, which consists of all sincere believers in Christ who do not resist the Holy Spirit when He speaks to them the truth, and who do not haughtily view themselves as their own, or as belonging to a building or a denomination, but rather humbly belonging to God.