From What Church Are You?

I've been asked this question sometimes by my friends whenever we come into a topic about faith, God or religion. "By the way, what is your religion?" - this is the type of question I common hear when someone is really trying to asked "From what Christian denomination are you?" or "From what Church are you?".

What does a church really mean to you? A church is a place for Christian worship right? Or, it could mean a group of Christian believers or its a Christian denomination. But today I was so amazed to find out another view about what church is from one of Bridget Willard quotes:

Church isn’t where you meet.
Church isn’t a building.
Church is what you do.
Church is who you are.
Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ.
Let’s not go to Church,
let’s be the Church.

"Be the Church!" is what she said. For her a church is not just a building, its not just a body of believers with a common faith, but for Bridget Willard, you can be the Church and for me, I think she is right. According to her, a church is who you are and what you do. With this, I think she meant that we are to act according to what we believed in or according to our faith. Just as what Jesus taught us in Matthew 5:16:

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Jesus tells us to do good and be an example of a man of faith so that whoever sees your good examples will do the same and will also praise our Father in heaven.

It's that simple.

But is it that simple to follow?

How to be good?

First, you have to have the will to do good. Always have the aggressiveness inside you to do good. With this, in whatever you do, you will become conscious that what you decide to do must be something good. If not, your conscience will tell you that what you did is not right.

Second, start doing good on your own little ways. A little good deed you gave unto others might be a very huge help for them.

Lastly, keep asking God to help you in doing good. We have to accept that we cannot be successful in anything we do without the help from our Almighty God.