Although the household is a primary political category in the ancient world, it also becomes the basis for a second image. We are a new building for God. We are the new temple. We might guess that the notion that the temple was the center, heart, and organizing force of the old commonwealth of Israel suggested the connection here. But other classic notions of the temple are in force here as well. On the one hand, we are members of God’s household. This suggests our heavenly abode. We reside with