Today was the 50th anniversary of our church building. Not the church itself...the actual building. We had a combined traditional service (we typically go the the early contemporary service). Old pastors were there, the ladies choir from LaGrange College performed and we shared a BBQ lunch together. It was a big deal for our church.
I sat in that service though and was dissatisfied. I think we are missing the whole point. Did I really just spend 2 hours of my life celebrating a building? I am not knocking traditional church, I was raised in one. As the years passed, I found myself thinking something was missing and then I met Jesus...in a skate center, underneath a disco ball and my life has been forever changed. My view of church has changed.
You see, I don't think it's about a building. I have seen lives changed in a skate center, at a city festival where bottles of water quenched a physical thirst, but the Son of God quenched a spiritual thirst. I have seen lives changed in a crowded den at small group. Church is not about a building, it's about people. It's about people loving like Jesus...no conditions, no strings attached.
1 John 3 :23 "And this is His command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ and to love one another as he commanded us."
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