Decoding Laodicea

A letter to a church is not a letter to a building, but rather, a letter to a

group of believers. Those believers comprise the body of a congregation

that is a part of the larger body of the church, which is the visible

body and representation of the Lord Jesus in the world. When that is

understood, the idea that these words can be lifted out of their context

as some type of offer to somebody that does not know Jesus becomes

an absurdity. To use common, religious terminology, these words about

standing at the door and knocking are not directed to somebody that is

not "saved." These words of knocking are to a church.