Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Doors

I walked around the church where I work today and took pictures of doors. The reason I picked this church is that it is the building where I work -- my comments below are not meant to infer anything about this particular church!

Doors are interesting. We say in the Methodist church that we have "Open Doors." I know that doesn't literally mean that our doors are always open, but I wonder what our doors say about our church. I invite you to walk around your church and think about your doors.

What do your doors say about your church?

Are they symbolic in any way? Are they open, like the gate in the middle of this collage? Are the figurative doors to your church clear glass, offering welcome and openness? Do your doors nurture and care for people, like the one with the portico? Are your doors far away and hard to reach? Do they require warnings, like the one with the cone? Are your figurative doors under a cross? Are our doors only windows where entrances used to be?

What are the "doors" to your church like?

Isn't it time to open our doors so that God can enter? And so that he can bring his children into the church?

Image: Collage created by Picasa. What a cool tool that is!

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Blogger Olive Morgan said...

We changed our doors to glass doors that show a welcoming, lighted porch with pretty flowers always on view and made a set of steps with hand rails which invite you to go up into the doors, and we added a long gently rising diabled access to one side. The disabled access has railings that are ideal for displaying banners that welcome passers-by on the busy road to come to our numerous events. Only last week a couple who don't live in our local area but go past frequently to visit his Mother in oxfordshire came to worship, saying that they had been looking for a new church.

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