Protecting Sleeping Congregations

(from Dave Cheadle)

Twenty-five years ago, the need was "urgent." 

In an alarming number of our churches, it was even "desperate," at least according to one RCA leader.

"In many of our congregations," he declared, "the Spirit seems at best to be a peripheral presence.

"Pastors and people labor, and I mean labor, to maintain the forms of life.  But the spirit of life is absent.  Forms of worship are observed, necessary duties are performed, but they are dull and labored and lifeless...."

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