In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, a strong church.

There are hundreds and thousands of buildings all across this country and around the world

called churches.

And some of them are large, some of them are small, some of them are weak, some of them are strong.

The truth is that these church buildings are not the church.

The church building houses the church.

For example, there was a time when we were downtown

in a whole different building, this church. Then we had to come out this way because of traffic

and so forth, and still we still have the same church. And so there are many, many churches

of many, many different kinds, and some of them are

not all Christian churches.

Some of them belong to other religions.

They call them churches.

Some of them have other names for their churches, but that's what they call them.

And so when you think about that, and you think about millions of people belong to a church, some people

are saved and they don't belong to a church. What is a church anyway? And so when you think

about that, you think about, well, what kind of church do I want to belong to? Do I want to belong

to a weak church? Do I want to belong to a strong church?

And so the title of this message is a strong church.

You may say, well, you know what?

I came in here this morning, and I don't even know that I'm interested in church.

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