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Did Your Church Build Too Much Too Soon?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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I call it "the aftermath."

A church goes through an intense time of planning and fundraising to construct a new facility. Then the members participate in a groundbreaking service. Finally, the building is constructed in the midst of great hope and anticipation.

Then the bottom falls out.

The great hope that accompanied the building of the facility becomes a great despair. The church realizes the building is far more than they need, that the expenditures were far greater than they should have been, and that alternative and smaller plans were wrongly rejected.

The church built too big.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/8-consequences-of-building-a-church-too-big-178938/#37ae2B5MB93DHRqb.99

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