Think what you could build with a quarter of a million bricks, says Moderator Rosie

“As a child, I loved playing with Lego, as did my husband Dave.

We still have the big storage box his dad made for him, still full of 1960’s Lego.

Our children loved playing with Lego, and we have their Lego in the attic as well. There’s a lot for our wee granddaughter to play with.

Since its invention, Lego has grown in popularity and complexity.

And it has diversified – Lego games, Lego films, Lego animation, Lego theme parks.

Over the past year, I’ve used plastic building blocks with some of the congregations I’ve met.

Everyone is given a building block as they come into church; they’re all different shapes, sizes, and colours. One brick.

There’s not much you can do with one brick, but if they put all their bricks together, then they could build something.

Add in all the churches in the area, and they could build something even bigger.

The Church of Scotland has a membership of 245,000, that’s a quarter of a million people.

Think what you could build with a quarter of a million bricks.

In the most recent census in 2022, 1.1 million people in Scotland identified with the Church of Scotland, and 2.1 million identified as Christian.

Give them all a brick; there’s so much we could build together.

Let’s go global. The worldwide figure is 2.38 billion people, who identify as Christian, almost a third of the world’s population.

Jesus doesn’t call us to build with plastic bricks.

He calls each one of us to help build up the Kingdom of God by sharing the Good News of the gospel, showing love and care, and compassion.

All these people.

Just think what we could do, just think what a difference we could make in our world.

In our parishes, in Scotland, beyond Scotland.

Building together with faith and love, care and compassion.”