Opinions

Okay so upon realizing that I haven't really voiced my opinions very much on the whole selling the building thing I thought I would do so... I know that most of you know my opinion so this is truly an unnecessary post but hey I have nothing better to post today...

upon hearing that the building might be sold I was a little sad... I do love the rock in it's physical and tangible form... I was having a conversation with a very lovely friend that is removed from the situation and I kept referencing it as the church was being sold (now in my mind I know that a church is more than a building but that wasn't making it to my heart just yet) and she had something very insightful to say that finally made the connection to my heart... She said "wait what did you just say... The church isn't being sold.. The church is God's and I am sure He isn't selling it... You may have to sell a building that is all" how simple is that? Yes the church is more than the building... The church is the ppl.... Now I see a far bigger problem with the building being sold... If it is sold then we might just have to start acting like a church to get ppl to believe we are one... I mean when you have a building it is pretty easy to make ppl believe you are a church, even if you really aren't... But now, without a building, we might actually have to love each other and rely on God... We might have to go to someone's house to meet and get out of out comfortable building... Man this is going to be hard if we don't have a building... And don't think that I am just pointing fingers at everyone else, I too am guilty of these very things I talk about... I don't love the ppl in my church, at best most of them are casual acquaintances... I hate that our church has become the thing we hate most... It is just like all those other exclusive "country club" churches... We are just as selfish and whine as all the things we claim to hate... We have the same problems we are trying to get away from.... If something is broken you don't just move it to another place and call it fixed you have to make fundamental changes to it... Maybe this is where we should start...