{"id":262,"date":"2008-01-30T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/lego-church-con"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:44:11","slug":"lego-church-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/lego-church-con.html","title":{"rendered":"Building the &#8220;Lego&#8221; Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/legoch1_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 327px; height: 221px;\" title=\"Legoch1_2\" alt=\"Legoch1_2\" src=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/legoch1_21.jpg\" height=\"221\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em>&#8220;And now God is building you, as living stones, into his spiritual temple&#8221;<\/em> (1 Peter 2:5 NLT).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Jesus replied, &#8220;Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock <strong>I will build my church<\/strong>, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it&#8221;<\/em> (Matthew 16:17-18 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>It took a year and a half to plan, build, and photograph this spectacular &#8220;Lego Church.&#8221; Over 75,000 lego pieces were used to produce this 7 foot tall, 5 1\/2 foot long, by 3 foot wide model. It seats nearly 1400 lego &#8220;people.&#8221; This Lego church represents a ton of human effort and expense.<\/p>\n<p>If only building a real church were so easy.<a href=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/legoch4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 283px; height: 183px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Legoch4\" alt=\"Legoch4\" src=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/legoch4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then again, I guess it wouldn&#8217;t be so hard if we would remember who the true builder is. If we would submit to being the &#8220;living stones&#8221; (or legos), then the Master Builder would do the building. If we would &#8220;be&#8221; the church, then Jesus would &#8220;build&#8221; the church.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be part of a church that Jesus builds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And now God is building you, as living stones, into his spiritual temple&#8221; (1 Peter 2:5 NLT). &#8220;Jesus replied, &#8220;Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}