S2 - #26 I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH

A building with a steeple does not make a church. Calling ourselves the Body of Christ does not mean that God recognizes us as such. Like Sardis, we could have a reputation, yet God sees us as dead. If we seek an assembly to model ourselves after, we need to go back to the Book of Acts. We cannot measure ourselves against the standards established by Brother William Sowders but instead to the Church that emerged from the upper room.