CHURCH is Everywhere With Everyone All The Time

”As a dedicated Christian currently in search of a church, I found Wide Open Spaces hope-inspiring and instructive. Ever since I became a Christian I have struggled with the question of church: not just which local church to attend, an ongoing problem for my family, but what church really is, or should be. The response of the church- that is, of pastors and churchgoers in my acquaintance—has only contributed to my struggle. While many have allowed a distinction between "church" and "the church," most are leery of taking the discussion much further, and some even question whether those who don’t attend church can really be Christians at all. According to Jim Palmer, though, church is not a building or a set of activities or a certain group of people who get together weekly to worship God. Rather, church is ’everywhere, all the time, with everybody.’ What a refreshing message to those of us whose pursuit of God takes place in large part outside the context of the established church."
(Jim Palmer. Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-By-Number Christianity.)