Extreme Home Makeover

This week at church the minister related our lives and the church to Extreme Home Makeover. Think about it...ABC finds a really needy family who is stuck where they are. They live in a house that doesn't suit their needs and are facing unbelievable obstacles due to any number of factors. Then they bring in an amazing team to demolish their house and re-build it from the ground up. Once it's finished the house is a transformed, beautiful, state of the art mansion!

Similarly, God finds us where we are. We are broken and fallen, separated from him and unable to redeem ourselves. Once we accept God he transforms us. It doesn't pan out exactly like Extreme Home Makeover where we end up getting everything we ever wanted...but God restores us into the beautiful works of art he originally created us to be and gives us life as it was intended to be. The only problem is we can't see it all yet- we're still in progress. It doesn't quite happen in 7 days, but God is faithful and he will eventually complete what he began. This could also be applied to the church on a broader scale.

I just wanted to share that because I thought it was a great illustration!