FEBRUARY 24 "THE CHURCH – INCUBATOR?"

The George Washington University Hospital offers some of the most technologically advanced patient care equipment in the country, including neonatal incubators designed to improve the physical and neurological development of premature infants.
The incubators in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit are technologically superior and designed to mimic life in the womb. By keeping noise and light to a minimum, the child continues to develop as it would undisturbed in the womb.
The incubator provides caregivers an opportunity to access the infant for procedures without modifying their position, by utilizing a “baby-susan,” which rotates the baby without disrupting their normal sleep patterns. An x-ray tray is built into the unit so that the infant can be x-rayed if necessary, without being re-positioned.
In addition the incubator has superior capabilities for regulation of the temperature and humidity within the incubator, protecting the child’s fragile paper-thin skin.
The revolutionary design of the incubator creates one of the most user-friendly and developmentally-supportive micro-environments available today, and results in increased comfort, reduced trauma and appropriate stimulation for the developing child.
I was reading this article and thought, “wow, this is how God sees the Church”. God’s idea of a church is not some spiritual boot camp environment, but more of an incubator.
The call of the church is to contend for an environment where new birth can grow, a warm environment that provides food and stimulates healthy growth to that spiritual life that has been conceived.  Plenty of life is conceived in both the spiritual and physical world and lots of lives that are conceived are lost, in both the physical and spiritual world.

Do you often see spiritual life born but never come to full term? What kind of incubator is your church for spiritual life to form and grow?


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