Today we had at our church worship service about 10°C because somebody forgot to turn on the radiators. This brought me to the thought if I do not want too much…
There many believing Christians all over the world who would give much for cold church building in the midst of a free country. The do not have any of that but in spite of their bad circumstances their faith is not shaking rather the opposite. They are persecuted, they are hiding, their relatives and friends are in the prison, they are threaten with death but nevertheless they still believe. The need taught them to put the priorities in the right order.
I didn’t see my situation from that perspective today because I was getting cold. how it would be beautiful to have our own space which we could equipped the way we want, space where we could come at any time we want and space where would be warm. we could play with the lights, decoration and painting…
It would be awesome… But I figured out one anxious thing. I found out for myself that I grown lazy a little bit and I started to be more concern about the external problems. Yes, when there is cold there all the time our kids would get sick which is bad. when the church is badly painted than it can send more people out than in.
But these kind of thing can be survived some way. If our life doesn’t talk about what happened after we became Christians, when we do not show it even in the cold church It would take away a lot more people that in if plaster is falling down somewhere. I would not be “saved” by great building or awesome band if my Christianity is cold… Christianity starts to be inauthentic… and that’s what I do not want to happen
I do not want to have either cold church or cold Christianity, but what I got out of today’s lesson is that way more important for me personally and for people around me is if my heart burns inside me and not the gas heaters in the building…