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Thought I might as well do one whilst I'm waiting, shot looking up through the pyramid roof light of Blackburns shopping mall, at the town hall tower. What your looking at is a facade, a mask, the original building was clad in brown tiles, this includes the whole shopping center itself, ugly, and typical of the 1960s era architecture, then twenty years later the whole place started shedding these tiles and the place became a danger zone.
   So the powers that be decided to clad the whole thing in some material including the tower block, to contain the crumbling building contained within, it does look better, but when you look at it, the bubble bursts, and you are looking at a shell, although not empty.

People can be like that, a facade of what they pretend to be.  It is sad.

Still good eye on this.

That is so true, there is another aspect of becoming just a facade, which is so destructive especially in Christian life, and that is trying to live someone else's Christianity, when a believer is trying to live up to someone else's Christian standards, and ministry. You simply cannot impose these on a fellow believer, it will simply leave that person exhausted, and left further and further behind. As believers each of us was called in a personal and individual way, that is our testimony, mine was in a graveyard.
   God gives His measure of the Holy Spirit, to whom He wills, not what the church wants us to be, but what God wants to reveal to us Personally, if we thus try to become what another brother or sister is we will become a facade, and what we should be in Christ will be hidden and surpressed, and like this building, a crumbling ruin inside with no sense of direction, or purpose, driven about tossed too and fro with every wind of doctrine, and other peoples ideas.