how do you build a cathedral?
This morning I was thinking of the current movements of budding, emerging, half-formed churches that are not yet as mature as they need to be - fluid, cookie-dough kinds of cyber-churches and house churches and coffee shop churches and hybrids of hybridic churches that are still struggling to explain the journey they believe God is leading them on. And something my friend from Berlin once said came to mind. I adapted his words a little, and threw in my own for this image. But the idea is from Hans-Peter Pache, who I quoted in Linking to Cyberchurch. Click the image to enlarge it. The cathedral is Orkney's own St Magnus Cathedral.
thank you. for some reason those words, and image, gave me comfort.
Posted by: chad | June 15, 2006 at 08:15 PM
Likewise.
Dana
Posted by: Dana Ames | June 15, 2006 at 09:59 PM
love the words, love the picture...a message of hope for every struggling church planter. thanks!
Posted by: Steve | June 16, 2006 at 12:04 AM
Wow. Another struggling church planter. This put it in perspective. Here's to good soil. We already know the seed is excellent...
Posted by: Chris | June 16, 2006 at 08:50 AM
I can't get this out of my head. It has really struck me how short sited I am, especially about the church.
Posted by: Conrad | June 16, 2006 at 03:57 PM
Presumably it can be a bit quicker if you use trees other people have grown...?
Posted by: joeturner | June 16, 2006 at 04:21 PM
this is so good for me as we celebrate our young church 6th anniversary later tonight. It sure doesnt look like a cathedral. But there's more than meets the eye isn't it? :-)
Posted by: Sivin | June 16, 2006 at 05:42 PM
Thanks for this. I like it.
Posted by: Jordon Cooper | June 16, 2006 at 09:01 PM
Hi Andrew
I love the encouragement behind this message ... but who wants a Cathedral when it is God's ultimate plan to reveal his glory through the Church ? Ephesians 3:21 see also 3:10, 1:12, 1:14, 1:22-23
Posted by: Ross | June 20, 2006 at 07:32 AM