The Church is not a building

For those to whom Notre Dame was more than a landmark, the building being engulfed in flames is assuredly not what they expected for the beginning of Holy Week. And yet the singing of praises by people as they looked on the building still in flames reflects a deeper understanding by people of France.

“¹⁹Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,²¹in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²²in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22)

We, believers, the Body of Christ, are the building. The physical building is just where we meet.