you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5
Tebra and I were trying to finish packing her sisters' belongings from a house their family of 6 have lived in for over 30 years. In the toy room I packed what seemed like a hundred boxes of nothing but Legos. The little plastic building blocks were named "Toy of the Century" by the Toy Retailer Association. I used to like them.
For decades children have used their imaginations to make houses, forts, castles, boats, and so much more. There are Lego men, Lego women, Lego soldiers and Lego firemen......
The genius of Lego is not found in an individual brick, but in what's possible when they are assembled together.
John Ortberg says, "The church could learn something from Lego. Many of us focus our energy on 'building disciples,' and that is certainly important. But our work does not end there. Like bricks, or 'living stones' as Peter calls them, individual disciples are designed to be assembled together into communities that reveal Christ to the world. So our work isn't merely to spiritually form people, but whole communities of Christians."
Legos come in various colors and shapes. By itself a Lego is quite useless and small, but when they are fit together, they can become a giant building that causes people to stand back and say, "Wow! Who made this?"
Are you willing to be fit together with all the other brown, and red, and yellow Lego Christians to form a building that will bring glory and praise to our Maker?
in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Eph. 2:21-22
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