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   I invited a non-Christian friend of mine, who had rarely if ever been to a church, to my Sunday service once. After the service, I asked him how he liked it. I’ll never forget his response.    “Here’s my ‘review’ of this morning: I liked the sermon ok, but I really enjoyed the ‘warm-up act’ before…

    As a child, I took two allergy shots every week from the age of 6 to 17.  I always wondered why I felt a little draggy the day after I took the shot, until I discovered that they were actually injecting me with some of the very stuff that caused my sinuses to flair up.  And if…

     There was a great deal of talk over the past 30+ years about churches becoming more “seeker-sensitive”.  That meant we needed to remove impediments to worship that were keeping non-Christians (or “seekers”) away. It often involved removing things off-putting to seekers from worship that were deemed nonessentials. So churches removed offering plates and used offering boxes…

“Worship is the missing jewel of the church.” A.W. Tozer     Tozer was right:  worship often is an element in church that is misplaced, overlooked, but immeasurably valuable.  We have focused on just about everything else, except worship.  We have strategies galore for church growth, witnessing, and building campaigns; so much so that it’s…