This weekend was the last service and last Sunday using the Re:Hope red building as normal. We are closing up the doors to move onwards until such a time as we are moved to a permanent church building. I loved that the last sermon in this building- for now- was about being a living stone, built up in the Kingdom of God. I was reminded about how to seek God’s kingdom and his righteousness contains the essence of how best I can be that living brick in the spiritual church. I want to take time through this week to reflect on how God has used the church building; how every sermon… song… word… hope… prayer… share… and laugh has been used to shape—chisel—mold—strengthen— and change one, and, all of us in the past, and how all those things come with us, by God’s grace, held together in him, no matter where we meet. Selah.
I look forward with hope just to see what will happen- as every believer that moves out with us this week takes with them what God has already done in them. I look back with thankfulness, and humility too, at how God has used the building, who he’s brought into it, how beautiful and old and life giving and homey it has been for us, how it’s been a gift.
check out this past weekend’s portraits with the help of some of these crazy photos from inside the building
