And now we're trying to keep these people with us, and it's more like we have to direct people to Him. “I think this pandemic showed us that there's just way too much of this horizontal going on. And when they're alone with Him, is there enough of this awe and enjoyment of Him, and a fear of Him that they can survive anything?” he asked. “The world is going to get worse persecution is going to get worse.
To have more unified horizontal relationships in the church, there must be a deeper, vertical relationship with the Father, Chan stressed. And all of this, people walking away and fighting and angry about everything and so opinionated, is because they've spent too much time in our presence, and in our evangelical talk, talk, talk, talk presence and not enough time before a Holy God and sacred and reverent, silence and awe and just recognizing their oneness with Him.” “We have to make sure we get people to encounter Him, and that their fear of God is not just a commandment that was taught to them by us.” “Don't get away from your own encounter with God,” he said. “In other words, it wasn't an encounter ,” he said, explaining that true, lasting faith doesn’t come from simply hearing a message, but spending intentional, one-on-one time with God. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”
The verse reads, “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
The Until Unityauthor lamented that there’s a “lot of Isaiah 29:13” going on in churches and denominations across the country today. We're seeing the world look at evangelical Christianity as an absolute joke right now … it's every day you can just jump on Instagram … and someone is saying, ‘I'm not a Christian anymore.’” We're seeing people that we look up to, leaders fall. “I am seeing so many people, friends of mine who were in ministry, who are just saying they don't believe, or they're walking away ‘I don't know if I believe that anymore,’” Chan said during Exponential's Reset Summit this week. | Courtesy of Q Ideas/Parker YoungĪs more and more people publicly walk away from the Christian faith, pastors must urge their congregations to have deep, personal encounters with God and bring “sacredness” and “reverence” back into worship, according to pastor and author Francis Chan. Pastor and author Francis Chan delivers remarks as part of the Q Commons event, broadcast internationally on Thursday, Oct.
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