Who does the church belong to?

Again and again I've heard Bruce Winter say,

“Don't you dare talk about your church.' It is not your church. It's not the elders' church. It is Jesus' church.”

He wants to make sure that young ministers (literal translation = servants!) don't start to slowly over time get the wrong idea about what church is. Church is the body of Christ, of which He is the head. (Ephesians 4:15-16) She is his bride, whom he bought for the princely sum of his blood. (Ephesians 1:7, 5:25-32) Even our individual bodies are not our own, but are rooms for Holy Spirit to live in and are owned by God. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

So, even my theology was perfect in theory, what's my actual manner of thinking about my church?

I don't always think of my head pastor as Jesus. I don't always preciously value each person as God's possession, for whom Jesus died and in whom Holy Spirit lives. I don't always recognise that my decisions and service aren't the final word, but what the sovereign Lord chooses to do through it is.

Are you like me sometimes?

Only just realised

That somewhere deep down I've assumed that I'm infinite. I always thought that I didn't think that. But now I realise that there's a way in which I have been believing it.

A strange thing to change.

It's funny how long it takes me to find out what I really believe to be true.

Edit: Not sure this makes sense now, even to me. But it did at the time.