Today I saw a golden steeple in the distance with a sense of a church being unattainable or imaginary. An important question is who is Jesus attracted to and who does he want attracted to him on earth? The Church is the Body of Christ. As recounted in Mark 2, Jesus asked tax collector Levi (Matthew) to follow him which he duly did and later invited Jesus to dinner with some more of the tax collectors who Jews despised as they worked for the Romans and were usually corrupt. "When the teachers of the Law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?' On hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners'." (Mark 2:15-17). Unless we know we need to change and enjoy the challenge of change and becoming a better person, we won't want to enter the true church, the Body of Christ, which Jesus wants to be full of Holy Spirit-convicted (not condemned) sinners who are not out to judge others on the same journey as them.
