THE BLUEPRINT FOR THE CHURCH (3 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Titus 2:11-15
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The Blueprint for the Church (3 of 4)
Series: God's Blueprint for His Church
Jeff Strite
Titus 2:11-15
OPEN: In the state of Indiana, if you're going to build a house, or an office building, or a church building, the first thing you've got to have is... a blueprint. If you don't have a blueprint, they won't let you build.
Now you might ask - why do they call it a blueprint?
Well, back in the 1800s, there was a man named John Hershel. He was a scientist with interests in astronomy, mathematics, chemistry and several other branches of science. For example, he was responsible for naming several moons throughout our solar system, he studied color blindness, and translated the Iliad (as in ''The Iliad and the Odyssey'') from Greek into English.
And he invented the ''blueprint'' (actually, it's called a Cyanotype).
In order to create a ''blueprint'' he found that - if he mixed together specific two chemicals (I'm not going to bore you with their names, I can't pronounce them anyway) - he could create a ''photosensitive'' liquid that he could use to coat any surface and make it sensitive to light. Once the liquid had dried, he exposed that surface to ultra-violate light and it would turn blue.
Then he took translucent paper, made a drawing on that paper, and laid it over the a surface coated with his special liquid, When he exposed these to ultraviolet light, the light passed through the translucent paper and turned the surface blue... everywhere except where the drawing had been. Since the ultraviolet light couldn't pass through the lines, those lines remained white.
Essentially, Hershel created the first copy machine. It made quick and inexpensive copies of whatever needed copied and it especially became popular with architects who needed multiple copies for different builders who could then consult those copies as they constructed their building projects. Commenting on this fact, one person noted ''you could say the world was literally bui ...
Series: God's Blueprint for His Church
Jeff Strite
Titus 2:11-15
OPEN: In the state of Indiana, if you're going to build a house, or an office building, or a church building, the first thing you've got to have is... a blueprint. If you don't have a blueprint, they won't let you build.
Now you might ask - why do they call it a blueprint?
Well, back in the 1800s, there was a man named John Hershel. He was a scientist with interests in astronomy, mathematics, chemistry and several other branches of science. For example, he was responsible for naming several moons throughout our solar system, he studied color blindness, and translated the Iliad (as in ''The Iliad and the Odyssey'') from Greek into English.
And he invented the ''blueprint'' (actually, it's called a Cyanotype).
In order to create a ''blueprint'' he found that - if he mixed together specific two chemicals (I'm not going to bore you with their names, I can't pronounce them anyway) - he could create a ''photosensitive'' liquid that he could use to coat any surface and make it sensitive to light. Once the liquid had dried, he exposed that surface to ultra-violate light and it would turn blue.
Then he took translucent paper, made a drawing on that paper, and laid it over the a surface coated with his special liquid, When he exposed these to ultraviolet light, the light passed through the translucent paper and turned the surface blue... everywhere except where the drawing had been. Since the ultraviolet light couldn't pass through the lines, those lines remained white.
Essentially, Hershel created the first copy machine. It made quick and inexpensive copies of whatever needed copied and it especially became popular with architects who needed multiple copies for different builders who could then consult those copies as they constructed their building projects. Commenting on this fact, one person noted ''you could say the world was literally bui ...
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