Homes for Hiding

Clifton Harness develops software for housing developments. The layouts are changing.
The goal is to avoid people.

He says:

In design meetings with developers and architects, you have to assure everybody that there will be space for a wall-mounted flatscreen television in every room. It used to be ‘Let’s make sure our rooms have great light.’

But now, when the question is ‘How do we give the most comfort to the most people?’ The answer is to feed their screen addiction.

In short, people want to hide from others and build their homes and spaces to do that.
With growing rates of aloneness and anxiety, it becomes an issue, a problem fixed by God’s creation.
He designed the church to take us out of our bubbles and put us together.

Words like “common” or “together fill the early chapters of Acts as strangers became family.
Fires start when charcoal touches another, not alone. God created us as people who need people, and then he created the mechanism.

Today, it takes effort to get out of our blue-lighted personal screen areas. Yet, when we come together, we can love each other, cry with each other, and laugh with each other. In church, our full humanity and God’s complete divinity combine.

So, don’t stay home and let the church come to you. Come together.