Andrew Napolitano is retired judge, who does commentary on Fox News. He does a series of short features where he explains some little known point of law that has, or might have, impact on the general listener. The spots are filmed outdoors in front of a public building or on street corner. At the end of his commentary the Judge holds out his arms and says, “Welcome to my chambers.”
Napolitano models a characteristic that ought to be true about the church. We think about going to church. Usually when we plan a church event we think of something that goes on inside the walls of a church building, or at least on the property set aside for a local assembly. The church, though, is not the building to which the people go to worship, important as that is. The church is the people who go to that meeting place, and those people do not cease to be the church when they leave that assembly.
I don’t think the Judge will sue us. Let’s hijack and modify his line. Wherever you are think of the place where you are as the place where you serve the Lord.
Welcome to my place of ministry.
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