1. Lane
spends some time on page 25 speaking of how the ordinary places become sacred.
The reality of such a thing is true, however. Lane speaks of how Bethlehem had
not much significance prior to the birth of Christ, but it is now a sacred
place. Now, under Lane’s conditions in the third axiom, I can’t say that I have
ever felt that I have gone to Bethlehem, but I do know that it is indeed
possible to feel the importance of it from here in America.
I I believe that the place can be
made important based off of the sacred involvement of it. I’ll take you to my
hometown really quickly. My home church is an old dairy barn, renovated to be a
church back in the 1970’s. Now, it houses the upper loft as a sanctuary to hold
a few hundred, and the bottom floor is the old sanctuary, offices, and a
nursery. There are bathrooms on both floors as well. However, this place used
to house about 60 head of dairy cattle, and now, is a full-blown house of
worship. The transition is comparable to that of the manger where Jesus was
born, thus showing how the ordinary can become sacred.
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