New Building

Foothills offered tours yesterday of the new building. It was awesome! It is so exciting to see the new facility coming together. The thousands of people that are going to come in touch with Jesus within that building really gets my blood pumping. Understand though that the building is just a tool, the people make up the church. It will be the people who step up and say that they want to make a difference in the eternities of people that they don't even know yet that will insure that the new "tool" is used to it's fullest potential.

Being an engineer, I like to think in terms of potential energy. Potential energy is the energy that an object has at rest, not moving. Kinetic energy on the other hand is energy that an object has when it is in motion. Potential energy changes to kinetic energy when the object begins moving and energy produces work.

Right now the potential energy of the new building is huge....and the more of our time and money that we invest into the ministries that will result because of that building...the more potential is created. It is like taking a bowling ball and raising it from the ground to the first floor of a building, it has potential energy. But if I take that same bowling ball to the 20th floor it has MORE potential energy and when I let it drop, the amount of kinetic energy will do far more work than if I had dropped it from the first story.

I guess what I am trying to get at is that the building itself is nothing but a tool. The effectiveness of that tool depends on each of us and the amount that we invest personally into it. If you want to see substantial life change in the people of this county and the surrounding counties invest of yourself, raise the bowling ball as high as possible and see what God can do!