One Sunday when the king and his attendants arrived at the chapel for the regular service, no one else was there but the preacher. I often visit newcomers in town and find them to be church shopping. They want to know what they can get out of church.
Churches are one more consumer commodity.
As if we buy God and not vice versa. U.S.A. Today , May 25, 1994. I feel awkward at church. Willow Creek Community Church. For every person raised without religion who adopts a church, three persons forsake the churches for no institutional affiliation.