This last week was the 20th anniversary of the founding of MCPC.
For the first eleven years of her existence, there was a lot of set-up and tear-down work every week. Jay often recounts the stages of the our wandering – stages that at times sounds like Israel in the wilderness.
For the last nine years we have forgotten about how much work goes on behind the scenes. A permanent building can make you think that we are a “fixture” here. And sometimes we can forget all the work that was needed to get here.
Over the last few months, we have been reminded! Whether Nathan and Andrew flying to Philadelphia and loading up the pews – or Hugh and Jacob constructing, deconstructing, and then reconstructing the pulpit platform – or Rachael, Karen, Deborah, Ginger and all the other sanders – or Phyllis bringing in lunch on Saturday, and Myrle and Betty showing up to do whatever needs to be done – there has been a lot of “behind the scenes” work that has been necessary to get this far.
Chapter 4 explains how God commanded Israel to take care of all the “behind the scenes” work of setting up and tearing down and carrying the tabernacle.
As we go through this, I want you to see that the physical labor involved in this was intended from the start to have a spiritual dimension to it. The physical structure of the tabernacle embodies the spiritual structure of the church, so we shouldn’t be surprised to see all sorts of parallels between the tabernacle and the church....
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