belonging and going

I don't know whether you have ever been stopped by a street evangelist or had an enthusiastic mission turn up on your doorstep. I have fallen prey to this several times. There seem to be two favourite questions - firstly "Do you know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?" This is often easily counteracted with a firm "Yes" in that sort of tone which denotes there is no other sensible answer to that question. Several times this response has yielded a short silence followed by "OK, good" or something of that ilk and an wish for a nice day.
The other question I have been asked is do I go to Church, Yes I reply and then hope that they give up, one brave soul asked how often, presumably to filter out the Christmas and Easter folk and when I said most days promptly gave up - presumably writing me off as an over zealous religious nut.
The first question seems to have some merit - the second is a little misdirected and points at the problem Paul is thinking about in Phillipians - Paul would probably want to ask the first question but if pushed might change the second to - Do you belong to Church?
Notice not a Church or the Church but Church in that universal sense of the body of those who do, indeed, accept Jesus as their Lord and saviour. The question about going to Church is misguided, I believe, because it points in the wrong direction - either we take the emphasis and put in on entering a building in this question or if we have an idea of Church as the body of Christ, which is correct, we cannot make sense of going to it.
Paul talks about pushing on towards the goal and that is the heavenly call of God - he is not there, he is on a journey. He is quite clear that if anyone can tick all the boxes here on earth for religious zeal and correct practice he is the one - he is if you like an expert at going to Church, at keeping the rules, at doing what people expect him to - if this was something to have confidence in, he says, he would be the most confident person ever - but that is not the point - there is something else, something which takes him on a journey through the cross and inspires him to aspire to the crucified Christ.
There is a very real sense of belonging here - Paul belongs to God and Christ is all in all to him - but Paul is also a leader in a body of believers who belong to Christ and in a sense to each other.
The Church is not, primarily, the rather lumbering institution which gets a lot of flack from people for never quite getting it right - it is rather believers, those who belong to Christ and who look to the cross, journeying in confidence that Jesus is our all in all too. It is Jesus who has scooped us up and offered us life and in this life we truly belong.
There is no such thing as a Sunday Christian - that phrase is a nonsense because being a Christian is not about showing up on Sunday - although don't get me wrong, that is a great thing to do - it is about day to day living as if we belong, as if we are going somewhere and as if we care enough to invite other people to join us - to take on this same state of belonging.
I am still waiting to be asked whether I belong to Christ and therefore to Church - and there is a challenge to all of us - if belonging to Christ means that we automatically belong to Church then what does