That's my biggest complaint with "buildings".... a functional building is a benefit to a church, I think, but it can rapidly get out of hand, trying to make it stylish enough..
Back in my carpenter days, I helped build a church building in Pampa, Tx... and they were putting in really nice wood.... I think it was either red oak or walnut, can't remember for sure, ALL throughout the building.
I was thinking, something cheaper would be just as functional, and probably cut the cost of the building by a couple hundred thousand dollars....
It's easy to go overboard with stuff like that, when it doesn't improve the fellowship of the church at all...
Functional and cheap is the way I think buildings should be built.... and make them multi-purpose, so that they are not only used a few hours on two days out of a week.
Good stewardship is called for...
Back in my carpenter days, I helped build a church building in Pampa, Tx... and they were putting in really nice wood.... I think it was either red oak or walnut, can't remember for sure, ALL throughout the building.
I was thinking, something cheaper would be just as functional, and probably cut the cost of the building by a couple hundred thousand dollars....
It's easy to go overboard with stuff like that, when it doesn't improve the fellowship of the church at all...
Functional and cheap is the way I think buildings should be built.... and make them multi-purpose, so that they are not only used a few hours on two days out of a week.
Good stewardship is called for...