What Are You Building?

Ole Kirk Christiansen not only had an incredible name (seriously, Ole?!), he owned a woodworking shop in Denmark about 100 years ago. That woodworking business grew and struggled through several decades of challenges, World Wars, the Great Depression, and many other crushing circumstances. And while most of you haven’t heard of Ole Kirk Christiansen, all of you know of the work his company started in 1949. Christiansen is the creator of the Lego. Since legos beginning, trillions of legos have made their ways from the manufacturer to our homes to our kids mouths, to our garage sales and to other homes and kids’ mouths.

The reason they have these been so successful is because every kid wants to build. And the reason every kid wants to build is because every kid’s heart–every person’s heart–is designed to build. We are all natural born builders.

Although we start building with legos, we soon move to more complex and, hopefully, significant things. The question isn’t whether or not you will build something. The question is will you build something that the world needs and is pleasing to Jesus? Will you build something for your name or for his?

We believe, very deeply, that Jesus created us to build something more than a good name, good family, good bank account, and all the rest. Our world doesn’t need more selfish ambition and Jesus is glorified by it. We believe that he has called us to help him build his city–Redemption City–by inviting people to become citizens and act like citizens of his heavenly city through the gospel (Matthew 16:13-20; Revelation 21-22).

That’s what we’ve been talking about over the past several weeks at Redemption City Church. That’s what we’re inviting people to help us dream about. What role has Jesus equipped you to play in this eternal effort?

 

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