By Mike Glenn In ancient times, church buildings were sacred places. If you needed any kind of help, you would go to the sanctuary and someone would give you food or water…whatever you needed. If someone was after you, you could hide inside the church and no one could harm you as long as you were in the church building. A few years ago, several churches resurrected this doctrine to protect illegal immigrants – especially mothers with children– to hide them from authorities who would have arrested and deported them. There is a space where no one in the world can get to you. We call it “sanctuary.”
That's the ideal, isn't it? The reality? Not so much. Thank you for casting the vision, as they say. It's a good one. May it be a God blessed one in our lives too. May it be so, Lord Jesus! May it be so.
This is a great challenge and a picture of representing Jesus in a world that needs Him. Thank you, Mike. Safe people who name the name of Jesus. Sanctuary provided by the way we interact and listen and care.
Love it. My hearts desire. May it start in our homes and our families, flow into our work relationships and our church communities and further on from there. God is a safe place! And as the end of a poetic song goes, “that other souls refreshed and fed, may share his life thru mine.”
That's the ideal, isn't it? The reality? Not so much. Thank you for casting the vision, as they say. It's a good one. May it be a God blessed one in our lives too. May it be so, Lord Jesus! May it be so.
This is a great challenge and a picture of representing Jesus in a world that needs Him. Thank you, Mike. Safe people who name the name of Jesus. Sanctuary provided by the way we interact and listen and care.
Love it. My hearts desire. May it start in our homes and our families, flow into our work relationships and our church communities and further on from there. God is a safe place! And as the end of a poetic song goes, “that other souls refreshed and fed, may share his life thru mine.”
Thank you Mike
Love this. So true. Church should be safe place for everyone and therein is the problem.