“Our church looks like a medical office building,” one of my church folks has said to me, a few times. Here are two views:
What do you think? Does it look more like a place for an orthopedist than for a Eucharist?
I’m inspired by churches like Rockefeller Chapel. Modern suburban architecture isn’t known for being inspiring or transcendent, so much as affordable, energy-efficient, and handicapped accessible. But St. Benedict is beautiful in its own way. And perhaps one of the lessons of the suburbs is that convenience and efficiency can be beautiful. Maybe.
I love what you are doing here, Heidi. Love the ikea reflections. And as for your building, I think it’s really cool that is has a drive thru lane.
Keep writing, vicar.
Blessings from another suburban pastor down the road.
Guilty am I! Yes, I’m one of those who may have used the term “medical building” once or twice. But I know that I’ve also decribed it as a “community center”. But Heidi’s comments here make me stop and think that, in reality, it is a community center and a medical building. A place to be together and to be healed, and improved and saved.
Kind of describes a Church, doesn’t it?
Now if we could just display a cross that can be seen with the unaided eye, it might dispel all doubt!