ANTICIPATION VS. REALITY

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These two things are rarely the same.  Remember your wedding?  The anticipation of it (especially if you're a chick...guys really anticipate the honeymoon more) captivated you for months.  For some of you, it was more like years....some decades, long before you ever met your husband-to-be.  You were in love with the idea of being in love and being a bride and having your knight in shining armor sweep you off your feet and meet you at the altar and.....blah, blah, blah...  Then you get married and don't even remember half the wedding.  THAT'S why they take pictures...so you can see everything you missed.

We've anticipated growing as a church and reaching people for Christ and, yes, building to make that growth a possibility.  We didn't think it would work at our Old Alvin location, so we moved to a school.  Who goes from a permanent location to a school?  NOBODY!  But, we did.  Then God, (yes, I truly believe it was an act of God directly in response to our faith to move.  I don't throw around the "God thing" line a lot.  Almost never.  SO overused.  But, this was God.) provided for us in a miraculous way.  We had the place, we designed the building, all we needed was $4mil.  No biggie.  SOMEDAY this might happen.  SOMEDAY.

I walk outside every day and watch the goings on of construction.  Massive construction.  Constant motion.  Things being torn up.  Things being built up.  Trucks and trucks and trucks...a constant stream of trucks bringing things in and carting things out.  It's REALLY, REALLY HAPPENING!!!

We're building a building.  That's important.  But, not in and of itself.  What's important is that it's just the vehicle that allows us to build a CHURCH.  That's HUGE!  HUGE!!!

Just don't get lost in that.  A building will make it EASIER, not POSSIBLE.  It's already POSSIBLE.  We'll have a building in a few months.  Let's build a CHURCH RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

  1. DarrellNovember 16, 2012 at 12:32 PM

    My company is adding a new building right now, as well. The contractor put up this neat little tool.

    http://oxblue.com/open/greenetweed/camera

    Sure would be nice if we had the same, looking down on the new Church building construction. Any chance the contractor has one on premisis already?

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  2. amydugleNovember 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM

    That would be sooo cool!

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