It's Easy To Tear Things Down.

They tore down a church in Collinsville the day before yesterday. The day after Christmas. I'm not sure who "they" are, but they had huge bulldozers and cranes. I had seen the heavy equipment a few days before and thought I may be able to get some photos of the building going down. My wife had to be at work at 7:00 am and I went to Panera to have some coffee and work. I got back to the church at 10:00 am and it was gone, completely leveled except for the sign and a couple of wall portions.

All I could think of was how easy it is to destroy things.

I had the opportunity to help build a church in Odessa, Texas. We started with a big piece of land covered with mesquite trees and rocks and spent several years building a large building that still stands today. To think that this building was probably built by men and women who felt like they were doing the work of God and in just a blink (in comparison) that building was reduced to a pile of rubble.

Today I passed by and they were ripping up the foundation, tearing out the basement and even removing the parking lot. In a week it will be as if the church building had never existed at all in that location and in a few months there will probably be something else there.

It seems sad, to me, to see all of that effort erased in a matter of hours. At the same time, though, I know that the Church is not a physical location, but a body of believers that can never be destroyed by "them."

Every Parent's Dream

We bought our son a Nintendo DS and his response was every parent's dream! My wife actually teared up when we were watching the video. Priceless.