by Sean Samuel
I used to think the church was a building.
A place you go to meet God.
Now I know — He lives closer than that.
These days, my altar is a quiet morning. My worship is breathing deeply. My sermon is whatever life is teaching me that day.
I don’t need a choir to feel His presence; my heartbeat keeps time just fine.
See, when you deconstruct, you don’t lose church — you become it.
You start carrying the sacred inside you. And that’s a kind of faith no one can take away.
So yes, I still believe in gathering. I still believe in love, in community, in reverence.
But I’ve learned the holiest thing about church isn’t where you go — it’s who you are.