IF GOD WAKES UP

Annie Dillard, one of my favorite authors, wrote in ‘Teaching a Stone to Talk,’ “On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear straw hats and velvet to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.”

Or as Billy Graham once pointed out, “If the Holy Spirit left our churches… most churches would never know he was gone.” We better buckle up…God might just wake up and “draw us out to where we can never return.”

“Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?” Jesus