In his autobiography, Be Myself, Warren Wiersbe writes about his first church building project as a young pastor in Indiana. He and the church's building committee were working with a church architect named Frank Schutt. At one of the committee meetings, Wiersbe says he learned a good lesson about architecture and theology, something he hadn't been taught at seminary.
In the meeting he asked Mr. Schutt, "Why do we need such an expensive, high ceiling in the auditorium? We're not building a cathedral. Why not just build an auditorium with a flat room and then put a church façade in the front of the building?" Wiersbe writes that in a very quiet voice, Mr. Schutt replied, "Pastor, the building you construct reflects what a church is and what a church does. You don't use façades on churches to fool people. That's for carnival sideshows. The outside and the inside must agree."
