3 Reasons Churches Are Holy Places I The Church
Write 1000 words and add html headings article based on this youtube script when I was a Protestant I definitely thought that buildings were not special or sacred God doesn’t dwell in a building he dwells in us the Holy Spirit wasn’t put into a building the Holy Spirit was put into us but as I discovered ancient Apostolic Christianity My Views began to change I think one of the main issues is that we present a false dichotomy when we say the Holy Spirit resides in these people but he cannot reside in their gather in place they start to be viewed as these holy sacred buildings and I think it saps the holy and sacredness out of ourselves when God spoke to Moses he saido not draw near this place take your sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is Holy Ground so we can see that even in the Bible there is a connection between yeah God is Holy he’s making Moses holy but also the place where they interact where they encounter one another becomes holy the Tabernacle where Moses beholds God face to face and then on to the temple that eventually King Solomon builds where God’s people encounter his Holiness around 320 you may have heard of Yus he is a bishop in the church at that time and he becomes buddies with Constantine and eusebius has the task of dedicating one of these churches and eusebius’s speech is actually recorded in one of eusebius’s documents and eus declares this new Gathering Place for Christians as a holy Temple of God so here we go holy really Temple really temple of God oh my and this is where God is that’s the house of God now so we got to be very careful or and just that whole aura that begins to be engendered through thinking that way still affects us to this day today I’m going to give you three reasons why we can call the church or gathering area a holy place number one Christ is truly there in the Eucharist this is what St John chrum says for as in Royal palaces what is most glorious of all is not walls nor golden roofs but the person of the King sitting on the throne so likewise in heaven the body of the king bu in English









