Stop the Hop by Steven Furtick
This was one of my favorite posts of 2011 by Steven Furtick of Elevation Church. You can visit his website here . One of the things that really troubles me about the church today is the phenomenon of church hopping and church shopping . It’s a consumeristic mindset towards the body of Christ that grieves the heart of God. It’s time for us to stop the hop. This isn’t Christianity. Jesus didn’t die so we could sample different churches like varieties of meat on a party platter. Jesus died to establish His church as the most powerful entity on the planet. We are alive at the greatest time in history for the advance of the gospel. We have so much going for us. We have the ability. We have the resources. We have the people. What we don’t have is them committed to a place where they can actually be used for their God-ordained purpose. If this generation doesn’t make the impact it should, it won’t be because it didn’t have the resources. Or even the passion. I...