Open house

Sermon by pastor Phil Kniss. On the occasion of taking in 17 new members, Phil talks about the household of faith to which the Apostle Paul refers in Ephesians. Using the metaphor of the house, he spoke of the church fellowship as a warm, welcoming, nurturing place and said, as Paul did, that this church should be an open house, a place for all races and nationalities who confess Jesus Christ. This "house," he said is not the "place" that God dwells; He lives among his people. But this facility, this place of meeting, is rather a gift from God, a resource that needs to be managed.