I completely agree to what YB Hannah Yeoh uttered in her Facebook posting - "time to stop building church building and focus on building the people where fire can't destroy". It is timely call for all of us - that we spend our resources (a.k.a. money and effort) in building lives rather than building a "cathedral".
Please don't get me wrong. I believe the opinion here is not to discourage the church on having their own premises but rather stress on where the focus point should be. Building should always be secondary compare to lives. It always fall back to the question of priority. When we start to put the church building above every thing else, then our focus has started to deviate in comparison to the great commission given by Jesus.
Our good Lord looks at the condition of our heart rather than the condition of our physical building. Remember, heaven only rejoices when one soul is brought to the kingdom of God and not when one Mega Church building structure is constructed or a new high tech sound system being deployed. I like what Tommy Tenney said in his book The God Chasers...."The burial of man’s glory is the birth of God’s glory"
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