Pushing against the Immovable

I was reading blogs the other day, and ran across this post by Real Live Preacher -- go read it at this link.

In short, when RLP's church was built a few years ago, they spent $100 per door on automatic door closers -- on 22 doors. These were fine on the exterior doors, but proved to be annoying on interior doors; so much so that they then installed door stoppers, to keep the doors open. To open the door, you had to expend extra energy. That energy was stored in the closing mechanism as potential energy. Once the door was released, the potential energy turned into kinetic energy, closing the door. The door stoppers kept that potential energy from being released.

One day, RLP removed the opener and the closer on a door. He did so after realizing the irony of spending money to maintain something that could have been maintained with no cost at all. Once all of the mechanisms were removed, the door would stay open, stay halfway open or close, based on their needs.

Isn't that a metaphor for church life, sometimes?

• We have problems which block the expression of our stored energy.
• We go to extra effort to maintain situations which would be better changed.
• Sometimes we just need to let go of control and let God take control.

RLP says:

And if you look around the world, a lot of things that appear to be stationary are not moving because they are pushing hard against something that is immovable. You see this all the time.

Isn't that true?