"When earth breaks up and heaven expands,
How will the change strike me and you
In the house not made with hands?"
Have you ever seen or been part of a people of God that wasn't made with hands? It's an experience I wish everybody could be part of.
It has to do with having someone give a little bit of help to a people to get them going and centered in Christ alone, and then leaving them alone to work through the many things that will either make them or break them.
Paul did this throughout his entire life in the churches he started. Other than a couple of exceptions, he was only there for a short time and then left them alone to hold to the Lord Jesus and one another. What an adventure for God's people.
What it means is Lord builds his church from within His people. It means that He alone is head of the church.
A house not built with hands is a house in love with their Lord far beyond anything else in the world or universe. A house that exists only for Him and Him alone. A house that can survive only if they hold to Him as their head together.
I've lived in this type of house more than once, and grew up as a brother within them. Once this type of life is experienced and embraced, it is difficult to want to ever go back into a world that only holds together by props and personalities of people.
This can work as I've helped a number of these precious groups of people over the years, and what comes out of this experience is something that really cannot be explained, but must be experienced.
It's my hope that through knowing this type of experience can be found is out there in the Christian world, that it may make you see that there is something of the type of life that existed in the early church, still alive today.
Gary
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