A church building should never function like a retirement home for God's people. It should never be a country club or a member's only community center for people leading comfortable lives. A church building and sanctuary should be a point of heavenly attack in the world, a place where God's people are cleaned and fed and strengthened before flooding out into the world like the fulfillment of Ezekiel's vision. We want to honor God's artistry in the world with the excellence of this building, but far more importantly, we want to honor God with the faithfulness of the worship inside its walls. We do not want this to be a memorial to our past efforts, a tombstone set over the grave of a once faithful generation. No, we want this to be a launching point for more faithful engagement with the world than we could possibly imagine. We want it to serve as a beautiful gate house between heaven and earth, a temple, as it were, of the new covenant, where a river will flow out from beneath the threshold, joining in the flood that will cover the entire world. (Christ Church)

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