Are you surprised?
By aubrey
@averygirl72 (38848)
Philippines
January 3, 2013 5:26am CST
Surprised! Jesus did not build a single church building during his time? In my research I come to agree that it seems that Jesus did not build even a hut to call a church? If you find it in the bible, can you cite the exact verse?
What I see is that Jesus even mentioned temple stones to topple down. Then why are most churches now are so preoccupied with church building? When I am Catholic, I see the church is always renovated you will see it gets grander and grander each time. When I became Protestant, the Pastors are always excited in renovating the church in fact there is always a separate collection box just for building funds?
How come Jesus never bothered himself with building construction?
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
3 Jan 13
Jesus didn't bother with building because he knew his time was very limited here on earth. His purpose on being here was to teach mankind about the love of God and to die for our sins. He knew he could leave the building of structures for his followers to gather and worship in to them. He just simply didn't have the time.
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
4 Jan 13
Jesus' focus was on taking the message to the people, not sitting in some building waiting for them to come to him. He instructed his followers to do the same thing. Of course, now that there are so many Christians on the planet they need some place to gather and study together but the job of evangelizing is still to be done by taking the message to the people.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
3 Jan 13
That's right. He only had about 3 years of actually ministering and he only lived for 33 years.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
3 Jan 13
Great! because God can build his kingdom not in a piece of land but in our heart. Church buildings cannot walk, but people can.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
4 Jan 13
he didn't build a church because he was not a church building his congregation was on the road. He was a traveling rebbe. Now we have churches, where we go to listen to the word of God in a communal way. The building doesn't have to be rich but it has to be safe which is the reason for many renovations of the church, like fixing the roof so that it doesn't fall down on the people.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
7 Jan 13
That is right church is for communal way of coming to God. Nevertheless, the way jesus conducted religion is strikingly different from what it is now.
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
4 Jan 13
I think Jesus was more concerned with dealing with people directly and not building structures.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
7 Jan 13
Dealing with people, right. He needs to deal with people as personal as he could and he cannot do it if he do it the way modern religion does it. Structures are not that as important.
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
3 Jan 13
No, the church is not a building, its the people inside who are the church. They are the hands and feet and heart of God, if they are doing it right. I've worked in ministry and every pastor has a "building project". They have to, that way the congregation thinks that they are expanding the church to bring others in, that's how they think. That's backwards, we are supposed to be building up the people and then sending them out.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
3 Jan 13
At first look there is really nothing bad about building a place for religious or spiritual activities. People will promote the building and then people are free to enter and participate but as you said it's backwards instead of sending people out to reach others, it seems that religious people wants comfort and stay there as much as they like.
Church building is so comfortable-air conditioned rooms, cushioned pews, chandeliers, beautiful music, good looking speakers, beautiful wood carvings, stained glass cathedrals- like missionaries will say to people- We will not go to you, go here and we will build your faith. If you compare again with Jesus, he did not prioritize comfort, luxury and classiness. He walk, he sweat and he endure all the mess of the world. He is in the field.
@41CombedaleRoad (5966)
• Greece
1 Mar 13
Jesus was a carpenter so for the first 30 years of his life he was busy providing for his mother's family. After his baptism he spent three years teaching 12 men about God's plan for their salvation.
During those three years he was building a church but the stones he built with were people and still are. We are the church, we meet in a building. Somehow people have mixed the two up, perhaps men take more pride in concrete buildings with architecture to admire than in teaching people how to be Christlike. It seems to me that it might be easier to build a church than to change people into better ones.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
1 Mar 13
People take more pride in concrete building in architecture but Jesus is concern of how to make their lives beautiful not the building.
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
3 Jan 13
I think that Jesus was more focused in going to different places and spreading the Word. Building the church was never mentioned in the Bible. But I guess, overtime, when there had become a lot of priests now, they would rather establish a place where the people will dwell and be together in listening to the Word.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
3 Jan 13
That is true, overtime people seem to design a special place for them to meet and worship God. If we look at Jesus closely he is a missionary and most missionary goes from one country to another, visit one location to another. Probably, he did not build one because he has no plans to stay on one location. If Jesus is around he might purchase a van or automobile than build a temple to reach people directly.
