Grace Covenant Church

While teaching in Mexico recently at one of our EN church plants, I was pontificating on why we stop building … whether it be personally in our own lives and families or corporately, in the expression of God’s Kingdom that we call the Church. There are at least two reasons. The first is that we lose VISION of that which is being built. It’s certainly romantic to look through decorating magazines or watch the happily ever after results on HGTV of happy homeowners in their shiny new kitchen. What they compress into those thirty dust-free, pain-free minutes is anything but when lived out in real time. Somewhere soon into that project, the romantic vision gave way to the harsh reality that Home Depot lied to them. “You can do it, we can help”. Really? They are nowhere to be found when the floor collapses, your wife begins talking about purchasing a gun, the project goes into the fourth month and your Home Depot credit card has melted from the abuse. Yet we all lose vision, lose hope, lose perspective. There is a life cycle of a vision … birth, death and resurrection (when/where revelation and reality converge). This is a Kingdom cycle. Death before resurrection. But when the death part of that vision cycle is prolonged, whether circumstantially or demonically, that is where we enter the danger zone and the damage often occurs. It becomes imperative that we not just start out seeing what God sees, but that we CONTINUE to see what God is seeing and doing. Next installment, I’ll talk about the second reason why we stop building.