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There is a quiet revolution bubbling in our land. You must silence the busyness of your mind to hear the rumbling.
But it’s there.
It’s a weariness over the lack of authenticity. For instance:
The music industry, which has marginalized itself to harmonics and beat, is once again yearning for melody and emotion.
Movies, once satisfied with merely selling tickets, have a rebirth of interest in entertainment that inspires.
The government, intended to be of the people, by the people and for the people, is struggling to move out of the madness of political disarray.
The medical field is pondering healing instead of stealing.
Education is focusing on teaching.
And the church…
Well, the church is in need of ministering to humanity instead of preaching a form of godliness.
Yesterday morning I found myself in Adrian, Michigan. It was a beautiful sanctuary. It was filled with people–mostly of retirement years–who listened to my Jesonian message with anxious hearts, but with brains retired to quieter thoughts. I could see it written on their faces: “You should have caught us thirty years ago. Now we’re too old.”
But it will be the repentance of the older saints which will convict younger believers to transform their lives.
In pursuit of worshipping the Christ, we have lost Jesus.
We need to find him.
With all my heart and soul, I enjoyed, loved and appreciated the people of Adrian. But early in the morning, when Jan took a picture of the church before the service began–when it was empty–I realized that this is the crux of our dilemma.
The church will continue to empty if we don’t empty ourselves of the emptiness of religion.
God never intended us to come and praise Him only with our lips. Jesus said the church is defined by our “love one for another.”
That is the good news.
The better news is that it will truly be much easier to attend a church that embraces human need and human desire than one that audaciously contends it can speculate on the whim of the Divine.
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