For the last couple of years my church has been moving from place to place and renting space for us to meet in every week. Back in May we opened our own building. Last night my pastor was talked a little about how he believes our building is a big picture of what Christ can do in someone.
Two years ago our building was a PGA Superstore and before that a Home Depot Expo Design Center and something else before that. Recently though it had been abandoned, stripped down, graffitied and had a thin fence put around it and stamped as an eyesore. My pastor mentioned that they when they were looking for a permanent place that they were not necessarily looking for a plot of land to raise a new building but to simply look for what God wanted. He said when they saw it they knew that is where God was calling us. However, the building had to be completely reworked on the inside and reconfigured and rezoned and recreated which took a very long time and effort among many people.
Our new church building is just like every person. It used to be something cool and then hard times hit, we hit a wall, we made a wrong turn or decision and all that's left is still a building but empty, cold and a shadow of what it used to be. When Christ comes into our lives though we are reworked. It starts in the inside and we are recreated and made into something new and the best part is is that it doesn't take a long time, it's instant. We become a light to the world and a beacon for what Christ can do in each of us. No matter where we are or what shape we are in God can take us, make us new and create something bigger, better, stronger and for Him.
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