The church of Justo Gallego Martínez in the Spanish village of Mejorada del Campo, 20 minutes from Madrid. (Credit: Dirección General de Turismo, Consejería de Economía e Innovación Tecnológica, Comunidad de Madrid, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted on 03/10/2017 6:36:19 PM PST by marshmallow
The church of Justo Gallego Martínez in the Spanish village of Mejorada del Campo, 20 minutes from Madrid. (Credit: Dirección General de Turismo, Consejería de Economía e Innovación Tecnológica, Comunidad de Madrid, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
“People get tired and bored because they have no ideals. They haven’t given themselves to Christ, the creator.”
Being practical or cautious can limit potential. Granted, those are not bad things, except when God wants us to trust him instead.
Take Noah. Only a nut case would build an ark in his front yard. Unless, that is, God told him to do it. He did and the rest is history.
Mother Angelica came from uneventful beginnings, but by stepping out in faith — often to the shock of those around her — she ultimately founded Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). “Be a do-do for Christ,” I once heard her say. She told us not to worry about imagined limits but to follow what God calls us to do.
Then there is Mother Teresa, a little nobody who started picking dying people up off the streets. The order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, now has over 4,500 sisters in over 100 countries.
St. Paul told his disciples: “We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ…” (1 Corinthians 4:10). He would know. In his lifetime, St. Paul spread Christianity throughout the Mediterranean and to the Gentiles, laying the foundation of Christianity throughout the civilized world.
An Old Fool
There are endless people who have done great things as fools for Christ. That brings us to 91-year-old Justo Gallego Martínez of Mejorada del Campo, Spain. Although it’s still not complete, he’s done the unimaginable—built a massive church with very little help and not even a crane—as a gift to......
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very interesting!
Maybe he read Pillars of the Earth.
I have thought of making an Alamo Chapel replica half size 50x25
Megachurch bad. Massive church, um, well, uh, I guess, um, ok.
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