Title: Day Six
Series: The Divine Design (1 of 8)
Primary Scripture: Genesis 1:24-31
Author: Pastor Jeff Schreve
July 1,1940 was a big day in America. It was a really big day in Tacoma, Washington because, after two years of building, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to the public on July 1, 1940. It was the world's third-largest suspension bridge, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge. Here's a picture of that great day. The people were so excited; this bridge that was going to span over the Puget River. But the sad reality was, just four months later this is what happened to this suspension bridge. Disaster struck - in four months. Now, as you know, suspension bridges are designed to handle wind, and they move a little bit. They're not supposed to move like that. Nobody would ever ride on that kind of a bridge. You know, I looked up the reason why, and that is one of the major construction failures, in America, and they did research. The engineers and physicists and people have looked at this to see what caused that to do what it did. What caused it to collapse after just four months? The wind that hit that bridge was only 40 mile an hour wind. It's not like this Cat-5 hurricane hit the bridge, a 40 mile an hour wind. And one of the websites I looked at said, "The original design of the bridge had the girders, the trusses on the girders way bigger than what they actually put in." What they put in was a third of the height from what the original designer told them to put in. They did that to cut costs. You know, that bridge cost, in our dollars today, about 220 million dollars. It lasted four months. It was a huge disaster. Now, that illustration shows us how important it is to follow the proper design when you're constructing a bridge or a building or a house. But when we put it in the spiritual, it's critical to follow the Master's design when constructing a life.
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Series: The Divine Design (1 of 8)
Primary Scripture: Genesis 1:24-31
Author: Pastor Jeff Schreve
July 1,1940 was a big day in America. It was a really big day in Tacoma, Washington because, after two years of building, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to the public on July 1, 1940. It was the world's third-largest suspension bridge, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge. Here's a picture of that great day. The people were so excited; this bridge that was going to span over the Puget River. But the sad reality was, just four months later this is what happened to this suspension bridge. Disaster struck - in four months. Now, as you know, suspension bridges are designed to handle wind, and they move a little bit. They're not supposed to move like that. Nobody would ever ride on that kind of a bridge. You know, I looked up the reason why, and that is one of the major construction failures, in America, and they did research. The engineers and physicists and people have looked at this to see what caused that to do what it did. What caused it to collapse after just four months? The wind that hit that bridge was only 40 mile an hour wind. It's not like this Cat-5 hurricane hit the bridge, a 40 mile an hour wind. And one of the websites I looked at said, "The original design of the bridge had the girders, the trusses on the girders way bigger than what they actually put in." What they put in was a third of the height from what the original designer told them to put in. They did that to cut costs. You know, that bridge cost, in our dollars today, about 220 million dollars. It lasted four months. It was a huge disaster. Now, that illustration shows us how important it is to follow the proper design when you're constructing a bridge or a building or a house. But when we put it in the spiritual, it's critical to follow the Master's design when constructing a life.
We're starting a brand-new series today call ...
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