• Clinker Bricks  PRO

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2010 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Ephesians 2:19-21

  Tags:  Atonement, Redemption, New Life, Born Again, Church Body Of Christ  (view more)  (view less)

CLINKER BRICKS

Although at times it seems as though the church is in ruin and rubble, God sees it as a beautiful building.

Clinker bricks are bricks that did not quite make it. For some reason or another, they come out of the kiln misshapen or deformed. I read about a Presbyterian Church in New York State that was intentionally built of clinker bricks. Apparently, the congregation wanted to send a message, so they build their church of imperfect, rejected bricks. [“Clinker bricks and Ebenezers,” May 2, 1999, Exeter Congregational United Church of Christ Web Site, users.rcn.com.] The message is that we are all clinker bricks, we are sinners, we are imperfect people full of follies and foibles, but through