Monday, October 5, 2009

HYDRANGEA


LAST CHANCE to vote on the poll on CHURCH SIZE - scroll down on blog - right side.
In nature, there is a flowering shrub called the bigleaf hydrangea. If you take the seed of that shrub and plant it in the soil of Indiana, it will yield pink flowers when it blooms. But if you take that very same seed and plant it in the soil of Brazil or Poland, it will produce blue flowers. Even more interesting, if you take that very same seed and plant it another type of soil, it will yield purple flowers.

The bigleaf hydrangea, however, will never produce thorns. Not ever. No matter what. It will never bear apples either --- or grow tall like a pine tree. Why not? Because those features are not within the bigleaf hydrangea's DNA.

In the same way, the church of Jesus Christ - the REAL church - will produce certain features by virtue of its DNA. Its the same DNA that Jesus Himself has, since He IS the DNA. Like the bigleaf hydrangea, the church may look different from culture to culture, but it will have the same basic expression wherever it is allowed to flourish.

And be blessed.

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