I’ve attended many churches that don’t meet in church buildings.  As a matter of fact with very few exceptions, I haven’t been in a traditional church building since I moved back home from Georgia 6 years ago.  I’m a regular attender and rarely miss a service.  I’ve been to church in a movie theater, high rise office building, tent, recycled grocery store space, and most recently in a commercial space in the middle of a business park. No, I don’t bounce from one church to the next every weekend, but when you occupy these types of spaces you find that the congregation has to move periodically due to the space usually being sold.  While setting up church chairs in these unorthodox church sanctuaries makes for some dilemmas to be dealt with, for the most part they work out quite well.  We fortunately have a pool in our backyard for baptisms, and kids don’t necessarily need a formal classroom to sing and learn about Christ. The people that attend church with us are as close as any church family can be. While it would be nice to have a permanent, traditional church building, using these imaginative spaces to worship demonstrates that the building does not make the church.