Home Where I Belong

In this message from the Belonging series, Pastor Ray Phillips opens Ephesians 2:19 and Psalm 84 to show that the church was never meant to be a crowd gathered around a platform, but a family gathered around Jesus. Starting with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, he walks through why love and belonging sit right alongside food, water, shelter and safety as a basic human need — and why the local church is the one place where that need meets eternity. Along the way he shares openly about being bullied from seventh grade through twelfth grade at Trotwood Madison High School, praying every single morning that God would make him invisible, hiding in stairwells at lunch, and titling his high school journal "The Autobiography of the Invisible Man."