treasured vessels foundation mission statement

#Treasured vessels foundation mission statement windows#

If that sense of schizophrenia sounds familiar, your building is probably not well connected to your mission. Ultimately it is a ‘thing’ that doesn’t last, but that ‘thing’ could be critically important to accomplishing your eternal mission. The Church matters for eternity, but your building is a temporal thing.

This phenomenon is rooted in the disconnect between temporal and eternal. Your church matters for time and eternity! A biblical church isn’t a speck on the line of eternity, it is on the line. God has assigned his church to accomplish his eternal purposes.

How utterly shortsighted and un-biblical! The church is the bride of Christ, the people who love Jesus, worship Him, and repeat His love and forgiveness to each other and the world. It is common to refer to a building as, “The Church”, but a “Church” is not a building at all. “…as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.” Ephesians 5:23 “But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.” Your building is a faint speck on the long, uninterrupted line of eternity. Everything is falling apart around us! We hope our buildings won’t fall down any time soon but in the light of eternity, they will last only a moment.

#Treasured vessels foundation mission statement windows#

The carpet will wear out, door handles will break, windows will crack, stair handrails will accumulate nasty greasy human hand crud, cracks will appear in the sidewalk, paint will peel, ‘stuff’ will get jammed into every nook and cranny, and old bits of tape will remain stuck to the walls… Sound familiar? It should! This is a common worldwide condition brought on by sin. Your building is barely a speck on the line of eternity.