I have been slowly reading through 'An unstoppable force' by Erwin McMannus, in the second chapter he talks about how the church (as a community) has built Cathedrals rather than tents. Cathedrals are a testiment to the past and is a point in time of where a community is at. The problem with a Cathedral is that is can be inflexible and cannot be moved. A tent can be moved with little notice it has a lot of flexibility and is a lot more fluid. I was thinking about how wind effects cathedrals and tents. A cathedral is bricks, mortar and glass and stands against the 'wind' where as a tent can move and flex with the wind, I think it can be the same when the holy spirit blows through a community do they stand resilient against what the spirit is doing or can they flex and move with the wind?
Are we building a Cathedral
or pitching a tent?
Are you as a community solid or flexible?
How you you react when the holy spirit comes?
1 comment:
People build buildings God rebuilds hearts..
St Francis of A....??on myspace web page... theres a famous story of him sitting in ruins and God speaking to him to rebuild his church...so he takes God literally and does... after its built..same thing happens God speaks to him again "build my church...." worth looking up the story.. ive only ever heard it told...
its way to easy to think of church as building and forget the community...
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