There is a story told of a sparta king who would go around boasting of the magnificent walls of his kingdom. The fame of these walls spread across sea and land, far and wide. One day a fellow king, having grown weary of hearing of these walls so magnificent, decided to look upon these wonderful walls for himself.
Upon arriving into the kingdom he was dismayed for he saw no walls. The more he looked the more he was discouraged, the more he thought the sparta king a liar. Finally, he approached the king, and asked where these walls were of which he spoke so fondly.
The sparta king, laughed a royal laugh, and motioned, "they are right before your eyes." He pointed to the people of the city and said, "these are the walls of sparta," don't you see, "every man a brick."
Such it is in the church, each of us is the brick, that living stone of flesh and blood, that establishes the walls of the church, the walls of the sanctuary that enclose the presence of God to the world.
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