So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
Our status has changed from alien to citizen, we have been adopted into god's family, part of God's house.
The foundations of God's house, the church, are the prophets and apostles - specifically their teaching. The bible is the foundation of church. If we're not building on that foundation we're preparing for a fall.
Jesus is the cornerstone - he is the person that the Bible is designed to tell us about.
The church should be growing into a holy temple, that includes the people being joined together, but none of that will happen if the foundations are dodgy, or if the cornerstone is missing.
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