Let’s Build the Church Together

VBS week is upon us!!!!

I came across this parable a few weeks ago from a mentor of mine. This parable is a further reminder of the purpose of the church. May we be willing to go and do likewise.

“It was the closing night of a summer VBS. The teacher of one of the classes had missed one night and hadn’t encountered a boy who had come that night and who was there that Friday. He only had one hand. It shook her a little and she began to be afraid that the others might make fun of him. But things went smoothly and she soon put the boy’s handicap out of her mind. When they assembled in the auditorium and the time came for the closing program she led the children to the front and told them: ‘Now, let’s all build our churches. Put your hands together now, here is the church, here is the steeple . . . ‘

Suddenly, she was aware of what she had done. The little boy couldn’t build a ‘church’ because he had only one hand. After a moment of awkward silence, the little girl seated next to him held her hand up to his and said, ‘Here, let’s build the church together.'”

-Michael