“The Lord Jesus is a living stone. We also are living stones, all quarried out of the eternal life of God, being built together. It is not enough to have a stone here and a stone there. It is not enough even to have a pile of stones or even have stones sort of put very tidily. That is not a house, that is not a home. They have to find their relationship to one another.
So when the Lord laid hold of you with this eternal home of God in mind, it requires you to find relationship to other brothers and sisters, and that is the problem. If we could only make our own way to glory, it would be so much easier. Being built together is no pleasant business.
There are times when it is wonderful, times when spirit of worship is present, times when the spirit of revelation is present, times when the spirit of fellowship is present, times when the spirit of love is present.
But there are other times when it is one big shindig, and everybody’s sort of negative and critical. If only this church were invisible! If only in some wonderful way you and I, as members of the church, could somehow be built in some mystical way that we hardly know how or where we are built into it.”
-Lance Lambert: “The Prize”