CHURCH:
SERVICES; NONEXPECTATION

One characteristic that marks the average church today is lack of anticipation. Christians when they meet do not expect anything unusual to happen; consequently only the usual happens, and that usual is as predictable as the setting of the sun.…

We need today a fresh spirit of anticipation that springs out of the promises of God. We must declare war on the mood of nonexpectation, and come together with childlike faith. Only then can we know again the beauty and wonder of the Lord’s presence among us.

Psalm 95:1–7; Psalm 98:1–6; Psalm 100

God Tells the Man Who Cares, 152, 153.