Remember a time in your church when you could honestly say that we are not about big buildings? As some of the churches in the Fellowship have invested millions of dollars on large buildings it seems that we do care about big buildings now. We say it is for conferences that we need the space.
First, the wisdom that God gave pastor Mitchell in using the circus tents for conference. They cost a fraction of what a new building costs. And no one was ever proud of the tents. Genius on pastor Mitchell's part.
Finally, aren't there convention centers in our cities where we could rent the space to hold our conference services? Who cares about nursery, leave the kids at home. Convention centers would force us to change our format, and God forbid we should ever change.
We could have renovated our old building for a fraction of what our new building cost and used the Alamo Dome for conference services. Instead we have an enormous, sterile building that feels empty most of the time and that sucks up worship like a sponge.
I wonder if we are mature enough to own these big buildings?
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