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Schaller somehow knows that for every 1,000 drivers in 1957 there were 805 vehicles. Today there are 1,130. “Twice as many vehicles are required to bring one hundred people to church as were needed as recently as 1970.” (Translate that into needing one parking place for every two seats in your worship…

Jewish Hospital in Louisville spends eight to ten million dollars each year on capital improvements. Nobody says that money should have been spent on medicine for the sick. The building is necessary for carrying out the mission of the hospital. Our church building is not a monument for people to see;…

Deacon Hornblower says: “Some of my brethren are inconsistent: they say you should not eat in the church building, that this would make a dining-room out of it; then they sleep during the worship, and make a bed-room out of the same building.” Wish I’d Said That, Cleon Lyles, page 55

Scriptural authority for having a nursery in the church building is found. I Corinthians 15:51 reads, “We shall not all sleep but we shall ALL BE CHANGED.”

Pews near the front have two inches more space than the back seats. - University, Murray, Kentucky, 5-4-86

“Mother, is God poor?” Surprised, the mother replied, “Oh no; God is not poor. He owns everything. Why do you ask?” “Well,” said the little one, “our Sunday school meets in God’s house, and the chairs and things are old and broken, and I just thought God must be poor to have something like that in His…

Where most congregations put their signs directing you to their location is where you ought to build the building.

We build expensive churches and sometimes it is like erecting million-dollar launching pads to send up firecrackers. Pepper ‘n Salt, Vance Havner, page 87