Our church culture has boiled down the gospel to three easy steps. The danger is that we may have domesticated the gospel in the process of trying to simplify and mass-communicate it. Far from summarizing the depth and breadth of the gospel, it can end up dismissing 99% of God’s Word.

Should it surprise us when people don’t get involved or even move from church to church, trying to find the one that best meets their needs? Even worse, should we be surprised when people walk away from this consumeristic version of Jesus altogether?

Can you relate to being busy morning until night, only to get up the next day and do the same thing all over again?  Moses had the heart of a servant, but in Exodus 18, it is clear that he was doing too much.

Words are powerful. Words frame beliefs. Beliefs shape actions. As we use words and terms we need to stop and listen to see how the meanings of our words have subtly but significantly shifted in the minds of people.

Over the last few decades, the church has been pushed further and further onto the periphery of culture. Or in many instances, the church has simply retreated to the comfortable confines of its Christian subculture. But if we are going to turn the spiritual tide in America, the church needs to stop retreating and start incarnating the gospel.