>>Don't forget Eph 5:22-33! Especially vs 25 where husbands are told to love their wives as Christ loved the church "and gave Himself up for her."
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>...and called everybody to come inside?
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>Analogies can only take you so far.

Huh?

The passage is not talking about a building - but - the community of Christians as a whole. Christ died for the Christians - the analogy is that a husband should be willing to die for his wife.