God doesn't care about buildings?

Tonight's going to be a great night at our church. We are coming before the Lord as a church family to pray. To converse with God. To have a conversation with Him.

We need his guidance as we relocate.

We need his strength.

We need his direction.

As it says in Psalms 127:1, "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain."

So true.

I am really grateful for the momentum that we are sensing here.

God is doing a great work.

Some people might say, "God is not into building buildings. God doesn't care anything about buildings."

Oh really?

Did you know that there are 72 chapters of the bible that are devoted to the building of the Tabernacle or the Temple?

I would suggest that you can't read the second half of the book of Exodus without being struck by the fact that God cares deeply about the construction of the Tabernacle.

There are hundreds of detailed commands regarding how God wanted the Tabernacle to be built.

Or take a read in the Word of the Temple. If you read 1 and 2 Chronicles, 19 chapters are devoted in whole or in part to the construction of the temple.

God cares about buildings so much that he sends prophets like Haggai and Zechariah to rebuke this people when the procrastinate and don't get on with the task of building a place where he will be worshipped, or where people can meet with him.

Now, of course, God is concerned about buildings because of what they represent. Ministry. Ministry to people.

The true thrust of what we are doing is building people's lives, introducing people to Jesus, restoring people who had made wrecks of their lives, who have been abused or someone else has made wrecks of their lives. People who are just reeling from broken relationships.

As we relocate, we know that our new campus will give us the ability to house the ministries that will help this take place.