Measuring Up
Jeff Strite
2 Corinthians 9:5-15
OPEN: Years ago I worked in a mobile home factory making homes for people to live in (they call them manufactured housing now). The trailers were built along an ''assembly line'' as the trailer made it way from one station to the next. The first stage of the assembly began with the platform. On that platform, the first crew laid down carpet and linoleum. Then the platform was moved on to where carpenters built and installed the walls partitions and trusses. The next station, they put in the ceiling panels and the inside and outside walls. And then the trailer was rolled on to where I worked... I helped put insulation in the walls and ceilings.
Installing the insulation in the ceiling meant walking along the trusses (because the roof was installed later), and one day I was walking along the trusses of the roof of a trailer... and I slipped.
My foot through one of the ceiling panels. My boss was furious because that meant the whole operation had to be shut down until that ceiling panel was replaced. I was trying to make up for my mistake so I volunteered to measure and cut ceiling panel replacement.
I was so proud of myself - I had brought my own tape measure with me that day. Well...not actually MY tape measure. It was the cloth tape measure my mom used to measure fabric for dresses and skirts and such. Now, for those of you who don't understand the problem this created, cloth measuring tapes aren't designed for construction work. They're not accurate enough for things... like measuring ceiling panels. So when I measured and cut the replacement ceiling panel I came up... that short (I used my thumb and finger to show how close it had been).
APPLY: Now, why do I tell you that story? Because the passage in Ephesians 4 is telling us how we should help in building Christ's church, and it's all about using the RIGHT measurements when we build. If we don't measure correctly, then we're going to come up... th ...
Jeff Strite
2 Corinthians 9:5-15
OPEN: Years ago I worked in a mobile home factory making homes for people to live in (they call them manufactured housing now). The trailers were built along an ''assembly line'' as the trailer made it way from one station to the next. The first stage of the assembly began with the platform. On that platform, the first crew laid down carpet and linoleum. Then the platform was moved on to where carpenters built and installed the walls partitions and trusses. The next station, they put in the ceiling panels and the inside and outside walls. And then the trailer was rolled on to where I worked... I helped put insulation in the walls and ceilings.
Installing the insulation in the ceiling meant walking along the trusses (because the roof was installed later), and one day I was walking along the trusses of the roof of a trailer... and I slipped.
My foot through one of the ceiling panels. My boss was furious because that meant the whole operation had to be shut down until that ceiling panel was replaced. I was trying to make up for my mistake so I volunteered to measure and cut ceiling panel replacement.
I was so proud of myself - I had brought my own tape measure with me that day. Well...not actually MY tape measure. It was the cloth tape measure my mom used to measure fabric for dresses and skirts and such. Now, for those of you who don't understand the problem this created, cloth measuring tapes aren't designed for construction work. They're not accurate enough for things... like measuring ceiling panels. So when I measured and cut the replacement ceiling panel I came up... that short (I used my thumb and finger to show how close it had been).
APPLY: Now, why do I tell you that story? Because the passage in Ephesians 4 is telling us how we should help in building Christ's church, and it's all about using the RIGHT measurements when we build. If we don't measure correctly, then we're going to come up... th ...
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