By catering our worship to the worshippers and not to the Object of our worship, I fear we have created human-centered churches.

We have to stop viewing church leaders as people who minister to us. God clearly explained their role. It was not to coddle you but to equip you. Think personal trainer, not massage therapist.

You can’t shape the life of your church around who might leave if things start to feel too much like the New Testament.

Just because something is said with the wrong attitude doesn’t mean it’s wrong information.

Only when we become servants will we experience the Holy Spirit as Jesus intended. Only then will the Church resemble the Christ they worship.

How on earth does an almighty Creator allow His creation to torture Him? Even as I write this, I am marveling again at His humility. Instead of beating myself up for my lack of humility, I praise Jesus for His.

Think back to the scene in 2 Chronicles 7. When the fire came down and God’s glory filled the temple, would you have considered taking a sledgehammer and striking the temple? Of course not! Then why are we so quick to gossip, slander leadership, and divide the Church?

we believe we deserve certain rights as humans. Yet we give little thought to the rights God deserves as God.

It is when we love those who slander us that we demonstrate the love of Christ (Matt. 5:44–45).