The Church and the Market Place: What it really matters!

Everyone who has been born again is a king and priest. All God's children are anointed! All of them!

If you are a pastor or an evangelist it doesn't mean you are more anointed than a carpenter, a medical doctor, a businessman or a teacher. 

If you meet any brother and sister in Christ at the work and have fellowship with them there is church right there. You are the church, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Not individually, but collectively. 

“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”

I Corinthians 3:9, 16 

As Dr. Salum and I have been sharing, the church is not a building. The church is people that are gathered together in the Name of Jesus!  

So you can have a church at work, on the farm, in the coffee shop or in a restaurant. Yes, you can also have a church in a building that we call church, but the building is not holy, sacred and it is it the house of God. God doesn't live or inhabit in buildings or temples. The House of God is the Church, the people.

The gathering of people or the true church is where we grow in our knowledge of God and learn how to apply the spiritual principles of the Kingdom of God to our daily lives. We learn about spiritual gifts, but this knowledge is not to be reserved for a once a week meeting. We must learn how to apply these gifts and the knowledge of God to our daily lives as Kings and priests in the market place!

Think for a moment. Where do we spend the majority of our time?  In church or in the marketplace?

Of course the marketplace or in the school or at home, but not the place we call church. This is why we MUST BEGIN TO FLOW IN OUR PASSION, PURPOSE AND PLACE TO EXPAND THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

The Bible principles are not for to be used inside the church, they are for change in all the world. The church is a gathering, a fellowship when people meet even without a set time. Yes, they sing together, they  praise together, but anywhere. The marketplace is where the Kingdom principles must be used.

These are questions that matter:

How can you and we bring the influence of the Kingdom into our daily lives? 

How can we rule financially, in our schools, in politics, in education, in sports, in the media, etc? Remember that ruling for God is serving. Like Jesus we are servant Kings. We are all priests and ministers! 

What is more important, the church or the marketplace? Both!  Many times they can be intertwined. 

What do you say?

Dr. Paul Taylor