American evangelical Sunday evening attendance has collapsed, Sunday school is in total meltdown, even our latest discipleship effort — homes groups — are now in a tailspin. But morning worship attendance is still doing quite well, thank you, especially in big churches. In the last ten years these other meetings have languished, but we’ve given
It seems we think God blesses just because people like it. We have confused popularity with power. We’ve confused the applause of men with the approval of heaven. We are being used, but by who? How can we be used by God when we have nothing more than feel-good theology that demands nothing of us.
Let’s focus our thinking on a man who does not get very much attention among most Christians—the Apostle James. We have looked at the Transfiguration through the eyes of John, who emphasized the glory of the Son. And we have looked at the Transfiguration through the eyes of Peter. He saw the glory of the