Visiting my son in Parker, Colorado, I was driving around the other day, and noticed signs posted at various locations throughout the community which read: “A Covenant-Protected Community.”
I am always looking for sermons.
Now, I knew I had found one: The Church as a Covenant-Protected Community.
I would start with what people might not like about communities like this. True, they prevent the neighbors from repairing their cars on the sidewalks, or painting their house neon green, or hanging the wash from the upstairs windows.
But covenants can also be restrictive. They value uniformity or standards. You must ask permission from the ruling body of the homeowner’s association to do anything that either breaks covenant or goes beyond the provisions of the covenant.
But the covenant in these communities is designed to “protect,” not harass. It’s purpose is to preserve value—indeed increase it. It’s goal is to protect the neighborhood from our neighbors whose behavior and values fly in the face of good fiscal and aesthetic sense.
So in what sense is the church a “covenant-protected” community?
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