Emphasis Preaching Journal

To build a new church building is an exciting undertaking. It is also a lot of hard work. For the undertaking to be successful, there has to be some in-depth visioning. Many architects will not even begin to work for a congregation until that congregation prepared a statement of their needs, a description of who they are, and how they feel as a church. Expressions about worship, hospitality, fellowship and service have to be rendered. Then, the architect can begin to translate the experience, the hopes and dreams of a congregation, into a building they can call "home."