South Bound 51

Not too long ago I had a Honda. 

It was actually a pretty nice car.

One day I got in a car wreck. 

A pretty bad one in fact.

Really messed up the car.

Really messed me up too.

I recovered.

The car didn't.

We had it towed home.

Many of the parts of the car probably functioned just fine individually.

But that's not how it was designed to work.

Collectively, it wasn't at all what a car should be, to effectively function as a car should.

It wasn't drive-able.

It wasn't pretty.

In a matter of seconds, it was junk.

It wasn't actually destroyed though, and it could have been fixed.

But fixing it wouldn't have been worth the extensive investment of time, money or effort.

Still it existed.

There it was bloody and mashed.

I saw it everyday for months.

It was ugly.

So...why am I telling you this?

Only to say that cars, even the best cars, don't need to be destroyed to make them ineffective and diminish their worth.

The mere absence or destruction of a very few key elements (or parts) is really all it takes to turn an engineering wonder into scrap metal.

Worthless.

Useless.

Still it existed.

So the church too is a vehicle.

Think about it.

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