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Adam may have a point here. As I drive by the new Rexburg temple I wonder if God wouldn't have been happier with a little smaller, simpler building and the extra money going toward helping the poor or downtrodden.
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Our branch is in a standard church building and is growing 20%-25% per year. We have over 50 baptisms this calendar year alone. In fact, the explosive growth didn't happen until we moved out from a meeting hall downtown in the hood and moved into an upper middle class neighborhood LDS chapel.
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I think one of the points of Adam's post is that SACRIFICE is a tremendous driver.
When members had to pay for their own chapels (or a percentage of it), I think they meant something more. When I was in my area, and we were desperately trying to average over 30 members so we could get a chapel built. Which it was, and the open house/dedication ended up being my send off (like Adam). A lot of excitement at the time. But now it is just weeds (for mainly the reason they pulled the missionaries out). Sometimes its nice to have a tangible material goal that everyone sacrifices toward. Like the Kirtland Temple. |
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