One of the highlights of church fellowship is the potluck meal. Everyone, or at least almost everyone, prepares a few of their favorite dishes and brings it to the building and people walk by to a self-serve meal. Did you know there's a rule at church potlucks that helps us understand the church?

Let’s play a word association game.

What do you think of when you think of church? For some, even the term is a turnoff. Perhaps bad experiences in the past or even the present have soured one's response. Did you know the term “church” is not even a religious word? So what does it mean?