Many of us learned as children to lace our fingers and say the rhyme: “Here is the church / here is the steeple / open it up / and see all the people.” A funny thing then happened when we grew up: we heard that church in the New Testament never refers to the place in which the people meet but refers always to the people themselves.  "Church" is not a place or a meeting or a set of programs.  It is a community of Christians who are devoted to the things of God.