You don't need anything fancy to make a church. You don't need elaborate woodwork or an altar trimmed with gold. You don’t need brick walls or a new roof or even a pipe organ. Those things are frosting.
Frosting dresses things up. It is a sweet tasting outer coating. It looks good, it tickles your tooth. But if the insides are rotten... if the cupcake isn't quality stuff... if it is stale or moldy or just plain rotten, it doesn't matter how much frosting you spread on the outside, the cupcake taste tastes terrible.
There is an old saying that's been in my family for a long time. It goes like this, "You can put frosting on a turd but you've still got a turd."
In today's world we seem overly concerned with the shiny outside. We've lost touch with the fact it’s the insides that matter. Someday the facade will fall way and all that's left is that hidden center. So what have we banked on? The beautiful decay? Or the humble outside that hides a shining center?
For me, I'll take a basement church with the Good News over a tabernacle that preaches watery weak fuzz. I'll take a mission-minded soup kitchen over a mansion filled with boats and luxury cars here on this earth. I'll take a shack on a rock over a castle in the sand.
Thank you God for Lori's garage! AMEN.
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