Sublime

Many pastors expect their members to sit under their teachings till they die rather than training them to leave and shepherd others.

A friend of mine once said that Christians are like manure: Spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. Which are you?

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

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of these eager followers of Jesus in the first century. What if I were the potential disciple being told to drop my nets? What if you were the man whom Jesus told to not even say good-bye to his family? What if we were told to hate our families and give up everything we had in order to follow Jesus? This is where we

If you think that sitting back and letting the church staff feed you will bring you the most fulfillment, you are so wrong.

Our commitment to the Kingdom must take precedence over culture.

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