Welcome to Be The Temple. I thank you for visiting this site and hope that you’ll be blessed by its message. Before you enter the heart of this message, I want to give a little insight to the point of the message as it relates to living without wall. Today’s Christianity isn’t the Christianity that prevailed shortly after the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Christ came to make disciples (those that walked according to His character) and men referred to the disciples as Christians (those that are Christ like: live and talk in the manner of Christ). Over the years however, the spiritual life of man in relation to Christ has been given the title of Christianity, yet it bears the image (appearance or outworking) of traditional and ritual worship that isn’t far removed from the religious worship of God before Christ. Being as such, the title of Christianity today as a whole refers more to the religious diversity of separation under one God rather than religious unity by way of shared character under one God. Christ Jesus has broken down the walls of separation between mankind in relation to God. In Christ there is a new way that doesn’t require walls built on external things like buildings, rituals, ceremonies, traditions, etc. In Christ there is now only one connection between man in relation to God and that is the Holy Spirit of God through Christ Jesus. At the heart of every religion is the need for spiritual fulfillment (the satisfying of the inner man), and the Holy Spirit of God through Christ is that fulfillmen. However, instead of embracing this manner of fulfillment in our oneness (or shared place) of spiritual need, we separate ourselves from one another and God through our self imposed religious traditions, ordinances, rituals, and denominational identities for the sake of fulfilling our spiritual need. Christ didn’t come so that man should continue to build temples and buildings in relation to identifying with God but rather He came to build the heart (spirit) of men, women, and children that they may be fulfilled in the Spirit of God Himself. Ephesians 2:14-22 (14) For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation, (15) having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, (16) and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. (17) And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. (18) For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. (19) Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, (20) having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, (21) in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, (22) in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. A personal relationship with Christ through love is God’s true call to religion (the outworking of your-our being religious: one that truly believes there is a God). Every man, woman and child can now in Christ embrace each other in an oneness of heart through the fulfilling of our common spiritual need, for in Christ, life is of the heart (our spiritual connection to the Spirit of God Himself) and not by the external workings of religion by way of temples, buildings, traditions, denominations, and ceremonial or ministry works. The religious life that is of God in Christ is to live a life of holy character. (James 1:21-27) (21) Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls (22) But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; (24) for he observes himself, goes away and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (25) But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. (26) If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. (27) Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.