Evendays

Wife’s father enjoyed a good symbol. He helped me appreciate them more, even though I grew up in an assembly that has a huge rock mosaic called “the fountain of life” towering in the front of the sanctuary-church-worship hall-auditorium. Big symbol. And I think, within certain limits, being attentive and respectful to what is communicated through symbols is healthy for the church. Reformed Church pulpits were BIG and placed in the center of the churches. They visibly demonstrated their attachment to the Word of God. The altar is the center of Catholic cathedrals, making visible the need of an intercessor (or intercessors) between people and God. (But just give me Jesus). Then some churches have a stage as the focal point of the sanctuary, and some of us just might miss the “symbols”. Back to Wife’s father. Years before we came to Lausanne, he purchased the table below for the church.He said it was Jesus’ first table: a carpenter’s bench. He’d seen a picture of a church in Nazareth with one, so he bought it for the Lausanne church. Now he’s gone, but the table’s still there. And Jesus is still at work.