Take My Worlds Apart
To love you - take my worlds apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my worlds apart
To need you - broken on my knees
Jars of Clay, Take My Worlds Apart
May 16th was my birthday. It was also the day that my church leadership at Faith Congregational Christian Church (FCCC) announced that our church would be closing it's doors as of the last Sunday in June 2004. What could be better for my birthday then to have such obediance to God?
On May 30 we were already planning on having a baptismal service. I think it's rather fitting, since it represents the death of the old self and the birth of new life. Our congregation will experience that this June. As with our spiritual salvation, the physical and organizational aspects of our church may be disappearing but who we are as a church is not dying, it is being reborn. God will give our church new life, though we do not yet know how our new life will look.
Take my worlds apart, God. Like the rich young man who was told to leave everything behind to follow Jesus. Like the man that was told to let the dead bury the dead and follow Jesus. We, as a church and as individuals, now give up what we have in order to follow Christ.
2 comments:
That's a really good way to look at the baptism. I never thought of it that way. And thanks for using my favourite Jars of Clay song! (that wasn't sarcasm)
Yeah Jamie... I like the way you put that too. It really does fit with the ending of the church. Great post!
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