This building is missing something

If you have a moment, hop online and check out this story: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/-spanish-skyscraper-going-up----without-an-elevator---214416887.html

I found this story late last week.  It is about a luxury high rise tower missing one crucial thing.  As the story goes, this building was started back in 2007 in Benidorm, Spain.  It was originally supposed to be a 20 floor high building, but then they decided to take it to 47 floors high.  That’s a whopping 650 feet tall building.  The building is almost completed and should be finished in 2014.

When construction first started, the building was advertised as the “banner of the future.”  At first sight, it would seem that the building would hold up to that claim.  But six years and over $100 million dollars later, the building now “represents a long story of incompetence.”  With such a large and expensive construction project, you would think every detail would be inspected multiple times.  However, one very important detail was overlooked and not included in the construction plans. 

Now, my first thought was that this structure was missing something like a key foundational piece or maybe even an entrance/exit to the building.  But I was wrong.  What is missing from this expensive luxury apartment building are any elevators.  That’s right.  This building was constructed without any elevator shafts.  So, if you live on any floor other than the ground level, you have to take the stairs.

Now I imagine that the design team and construction crew will figure out how to include an elevator.  What surprises me is that over 35% of the apartments have already been sold.  People actually bought apartments in this building that is not 100% complete and without any guarantee that the builders would backtrack to add an elevator.

Read Ephesians 2:19-22.

What I love about this passage of Scripture is that the building is complete, not because it has a certain number of members or a full scale of spiritual gifts present.  The church is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord through Jesus Christ.  Jesus is the chief cornerstone.  It is what brings us together.  He is the “banner of our future.” 

I would encourage you to read Romans 15:1-13 as Jesus is our hope and our future.