Furniture

Much of the furniture for the new church building arrived yesterday, including 400 chairs to be used in the worship space.

For the past few weeks, we have watched the building take shape and transform from a construction project into a useful (and beautiful!) facility. But until late Tuesday afternoon, it had still be empty. With the addition of furnishings, those empty rooms will actually become functional- capable of serving the purpose for which they were intended.

Sometimes furniture gets a bad rap. We sometimes say of people who blend in and don't really do much that they "are just part of the furniture." But without furniture, where would people sit? Would we really expect guests to our building to sit on the floor and be content? It's true that some religious centers in other settings are able to do this, but in suburban Dallas we know that furnishings are a necessary aspect of transforming our building from a structure with walls and flooring to an operational ministry center. 

I think we are going to enjoy having chairs, couches, tables, and such in our new building. We sometimes take these simple amenities for granted, but these are the things that our guests will find comforting and inviting about their new church home.

God bless the chairs on which we will sit. May they provide us with a comfortable place to be while we bask in your presence, giving us necessary Sabbath rest so that we can do the work that you are calling us to do. Amen.