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Reflecting on Alabama Church Fires
It is no mistake that the burning of nine church buildings in Alabama over the past couple of weeks is a tragedy. However, it has spurred some reflections that follow closely to the line of thinking from my previous post here (and at my other blog).
If every church building (note that I did specify "building") in the Southeastern US, since that's what this blog is devoted to, were to burn to the ground, how do you think it would affect the Church (void of the term "building")? Do you think we could just brush it off and say, "Oh well, that was just bricks and mortar; merely a place where we gathered..."?
What is this dependency we have on "a building"? We are not ancient Israelites who must go to a specific location to meet with God or worship together. Why is it so hard to understand that the very life God has given us is to be itself a tapestry of worship?
Sorry, it's early, I've only had about 3/4 a cup of coffee, and I tossed and turned all last night, so you get my semi-stream of consciousness thought process. Nevertheless, any thoughts?
posted by Jeffrey at 8:32 AM
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2/09/2006 08:56:00 PM
I was a pastor in Alabama until this past summer. The lead pastor and I had many days of dreaming of a big church fire. To that congregation, losing the building would be catastrophic, which I would have welcomed, to shake the religious cobwebs, so that new life would abound. Because of this decaying asbestos religion, the building means so much to people, that they cannot picture losing it, for losing the building would mean losing their whole faith experience.
2/09/2006 09:06:00 PM
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