Does God attend your Sunday Service..

Why is the Church
Powerless?

SPIRITUALLY WE ARE in a shocking condition.
The status of many local fellowships is bad news,
and deteriorating by the minute.
We have become more proud of the number of successful
businessmen in our churches than of the
number of men of God. The dollar has become our
master. The claims of the businessworld have been
given more place than the claims of Christ. The
corporation counts more with us than the Church.
Our condemnation is found in the words of Samuel
Johnson, “The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless,
is the last corruption of degenerate man.”
We have become a status-seeking people. We sacrifice
everything for prestige jobs, prestige homes and
prestige cars. And we have prestige ambitions for
our children. Truth is that in our mad desire to see
them successful and comfortable in the world, we
are causing many of them to pass through the fire in
this life and to suffer the pains of hell in the next.
Too often we are living double lives. Outwardly
there is an appearance of piety and respectability.
But in business there are bribery, shady deals, dishonesty
and numberless forms of compromise. And
in our personal lives there are coldness, bitterness,
strife gossip, back-biting and impurity. We are living
a lie.
We have become thoroughly worldly, living for the
love of passing things. We have been enraptured
victims of the idiot tube, and lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God. Most willingly have we
been poured into the mold of the world, its fashions,
amusements and ideals. The sin of prayerlessness
has been all too apparent. In our abounding wealth
and self-sufficiency, we have not had any strong
inward necessity driving us to prayer. Many of our
prayer meetings need closing down.


William MacDonald (1917-2007) - Prolific author
and teacher, was a mentor to many. William Mac-
Donald was involved in active service for the Lord for
over 70 years.


- This thought is not original with me, but a very Godly man once said that Sunday morning in the USA is the biggest sin of idolatry we have ever seen. -

- Aaron