Meth Lab Church

A custodian was arrested for making methamphetamine inside the First Baptist Church where he worked, police said.Richard J. Mosley, 30, of Peru, has been charged with felony manufacturing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a youth center.

It is sad to read a story like this, and to think it has marred the church and name of Christ. Most of us could never imagine doing anything like what Mosley did. However, all of us do. Few of us end up in the papers for it or prison, but each of our sins is a mar on the name of Christ and the gospel. We are the church of Christ and therefore our sins all take place within the church. For some reason we think of sins within the walls of the brick buildings as far greater, but it is not the building that is the church, we are.