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.