(By John Burton) Many are working hard to attract the wrong crowd on Sunday—and the result is an Ichabod church. We soon won’t be able to define going to church the way we do now. God is coming to reform, to crush structures of old for what is to be introduced very soon. Our call isn’t to stand strong until the shift comes, it’s to prophetically sound the alarm and awaken those at risk! God is coming! The force from Heaven, the celestial asteroid, is going to impact the Church, and most pastors and people will resist with everything that’s within them.
Man-made support systems will be removed. People’s financial and relational structures will be threatened by this strange new spiritual invasion. The human wisdom and natural common sense that have been involved in the development of the current church structure will not be usable in the new. Those who walk by sight are in danger. ~The Coming Church, John Burton I’ve met countless pastors and others who say they are focused on revival, but who are misguided on exactly what it is. Their focus is on attracting people to the church, on people getting “saved” and on other church growth strategies. The problem? The foundational pursuit of revival has nothing to do with church growth or the lost. It has everything to do with the church awakening, contending in intercession and attracting the fire of the Holy Spirit. READ MORE
Interesting article. Do we stop sewing seeds? I mean if Winter is approaching you wouldn’t scatter your seeds. There would be no time for them to germinate, let alone take hold and grow roots. As “fishers of men” do we stop casting a wide net? I believe the time of the harvest is nearly upon us, when The Lord will separate the wheat from the chaff. With the assistance of The Holy Spirit we should be selectively cultivating certain crops. In a like fashion, when we fish it should be target specific. The American Church has been (and continues to be) misled. The sun does not rise in NYC and set in LA. We have become Babylon the wicked, and we will soon be judged.