ACTIVITY:
MORATORIUM ON; BUSYNESS; CHURCH: ACTIVITIES

I think we are the busiest bunch of eager beavers ever seen in the religious world. The idea seems to be that if we are not running in a circle, breathing down the back of our own neck, we are not pleasing God!…

I heard a Christian leader warn recently that we are suffering from a rash of amateurism in Christian circles. Christianity has leveled down and down and down. We are as light as butterflies—though we flit, flit, flit around in the sunshine and imagine that we are eagles flapping our broad wings.

Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That’s what they did before Pentecost.

Psalm 46:10; Habakkuk 2:20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:12–14; 1 Peter 1:3–5

The Counselor, 90