Coventry's Mosaic

As I departed the railway station at Coventry to locate my hotel in the city centre, I passed a nice-looking building on my left: 'Mosaic Church: Fuelling people to light the world'. I quipped to myself that this might have been an appropriate motto for the Inquisition or Dominican Order, but I think the leaders of Mosaic mean it in a different way. The building does not seem to appear in The Churches of Britain and Ireland online gazetteer, but I would guess it is a former Wesleyan Methodist chapel.

Mosaic is one of those large, successful charismatic churches which is led by pastors and their wives: it has six male pastors and six female pastors, something I think the apostolic church would find rather puzzling, despite the universally recognised support that a pious wife can bring to a ministerial husband. The site goes on:

Mosaic. We believe God, the Father, is in the business of putting broken pieces back together, and in doing so he creates a new and intentionally, beautiful masterpiece, both as a work within each of us and as a collective body. This was the heart with which our name, Mosaic was chosen.

Indeed, but when one examines mosaics up close, one sees they that the tiny, individual pieces are not quite in unison. May we be faithful to God’s word in the little things, as well as the big; when viewed from afar and when examined up close.

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22

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