The old riddle goes: why is it called a building when it has been built? It's a difficult one to answer but London contains some clues.
On any map of Britain there is an enormous, usually grey, blob toward the bottom right with LONDON written over it. A glance at the map legend will confirm that the grey represents 'Built Up Area'. Living and working here it is quickly apparent that this is not strictly true. It is in fact a Building Area.
Take our Church premises for example. Behind it is a building site of some proportions, the property next door to the left as you look at it has been rebuilt on the inside this past year, round the corner to the right there is large building works on both sides of the road, and looking across London from that same hilltop position you can see as many cranes as high rise buildings.
None of this begins to compete with Central London and Crossrail with vast chunks of prime junctions and thoroughfares turned into building sites.
It is the curse of every vibrant city that it is a building rather than a built site. Perhaps the word was coined in some such city.
It was pre-thought in the Scriptures however about something even more exciting:
On any map of Britain there is an enormous, usually grey, blob toward the bottom right with LONDON written over it. A glance at the map legend will confirm that the grey represents 'Built Up Area'. Living and working here it is quickly apparent that this is not strictly true. It is in fact a Building Area.
Take our Church premises for example. Behind it is a building site of some proportions, the property next door to the left as you look at it has been rebuilt on the inside this past year, round the corner to the right there is large building works on both sides of the road, and looking across London from that same hilltop position you can see as many cranes as high rise buildings.
None of this begins to compete with Central London and Crossrail with vast chunks of prime junctions and thoroughfares turned into building sites.
It is the curse of every vibrant city that it is a building rather than a built site. Perhaps the word was coined in some such city.
It was pre-thought in the Scriptures however about something even more exciting:
The Lord Jesus is the living stone. The people of the world decided that they did not want this stone. But he is the one God chose as one of great value. So come to him. You also are like living stones, and God is using you to build a spiritual house.
I Peter 2:4,5
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