Do Churches that build what they want, get what they need?
Posted by jdbsound on January 19, 2021
When it comes to houses of worship, there is one fundamental question that Christians need to be honest with themselves. Do we design houses of worship based on what we need or what we want? The evidence that we can see and hear as a person visits houses of worship is that Churches are designed and built around what they want, and after they move in, they expect the building to give them what they need. Many Churches seem to spend unlimited amounts of money after they move in to make the room give them what they need, and the results almost always come up short.
Since the edict of tolerance by Emperor Constantine, there has been a search for the perfect house of worship. It is supposed to be an ideal place for Christians to gather, hear the scriptures, study the Gospel and sing praises to God. After building millions of churches around the world since then, that perfect worship space has been elusive. When it comes to worship space design, it looks like the church is following a world view of thinking, which is similar to those who believe in evolutionism, materialism and atheism. The evolutionist believes that if we keep building enough churches with random designs, we will eventually get it right over an endless period of time. The materialist believes that there is a yet to be discovered equation that can explain to us how to create the perfect sound for worship. The atheist believes that we can design churches without needing God. Not one of these world view designs has created a building that meets all of the needs of Christian Worship as detailed in the Bible. Yet, every church, church board, and building committee prays to God for help in designing new worship spaces, but they don’t turn to God’s Word for answers as part of the process. No one is answering the question of whether we are to design for what we need or what we want!
Why are Christians looking for answers to this problem outside of the Bible, the book that changed their lives? The Bible, a timeless book, has a design for a house of worship that does give the Christian church everything that they need – yes, even in these modern times. The Bible teaches that the scriptures are sufficient to give us what we need and not what we want. God is our loving heavenly Father, who wants to take care of His children. GOD gave us a blueprint pattern to follow, which was designed by HIM through David in the Old Testament. It is a perfect space for Christian Worship today. Shouldn’t the Christian community follow the Bible in what we need as a house of worship and leave the idea of what we want to our personal lives?
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