Buildings are Deacons

Psalm 122 describes the ascent of the people of God up through the gates and into the city of Jerusalem.  That ascent is what we are doing now to the real temple of God, whose stones we are.  Peter writes of us this way –

1 Peter 2:5 (NKJV)

5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Now to say that we are the temple of God is not to say that we do not need to have a place, a residence, a real stone and mortar building, here upon the earth as we seek to live out the gospel of Jesus Christ.  And that is why we continue to pray that God would provide for us the wisdom, the means, and the opportunity to have our own building in the Woodinville area when and how He would desire it for us.

We have said before that we should view a building as a deacon – something that serves the needs of a congregation for the work of ministry.  It is a structure, a tool for ministry.  It is not holy or special in and of itself.  But as a physical structure, it is used for ministry by the saints to obey what God has called them to do before Him and to one another.  It is also used as a tool, both as a beacon and a beachhead for ministry to a particular locality.

And so, with great thanksgiving for this space we have to use this day, we come to worship our God and ask Him to direct our paths in the years and many generations ahead.