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# Time to rethink building programs
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20071017time-to-rethink-building-programs-html/
- Published: 2007-10-17T01:48:45.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:26.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

This is striking, not because of what it says, but because it was written in 1947 by Carl Henry in his book [*The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080282661x/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com):

> The day has now come for evangelicalism to rethink its whole building program. By tremendous outlay of funds, most church communities provide a worship structure which usually stands idle except for two Sunday services and a midweek prayer meeting, if the latter. No secular steward could long be happy about such a minimal use of facilities representing so disproportionate an investment. Out of the modern crisis may come a better stewardship.