Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.

A lot of people today love Jesus but they're not so excited about the church and that's really not a shocker or at least it shouldn't be

if we just think about it for a few minutes. See Jesus is

love because well he's Jesus he's perfect and the church well the church is

far from being perfect and then on top of that we've wrongly made Jesus into someone who meets

our needs. He forgives me, he heals me, he affirms me, he encourages me, and we like having our needs

met. Now being a part of a church that's much harder. It's hard to

get excited about making a sacrificial commitment to a bunch of flawed sinful people. But

that's exactly what the church is. The church is an imperfect community made up of imperfect people.

And that means it's easy to find holes in the church.

I'm sure many of you have been hurt by the church, and I'm sure many of you have been hurt by the church and I'm sure all of us have

legitimate criticisms of the church. But we can say more. The church is an

imperfect community made up of imperfect people of which I might be the most imperfect of all.

In other words, I contribute to the Church's problems.

Maybe you've heard the old saying that if you ever find the perfect church, don't join it because you'll ruin it because you're not perfect.

Well, I want to start today at the end of Ephesians chapter 2, where Paul gives us three images to help us better

understand the church and what it's supposed to be.

So let's start in verse 20.

Consequently, Paul writes, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow

citizens with God's people, and also members of his household. In him the whole building is

joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

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