CHURCH:
FOCUS; CHURCH: SUCCESS

I am not preaching a gloomy religion to you. I am only telling you there must be a new direction set. We must seek the Lord. One glimpse of His face will take away all our carnal desires for anything less than that.

Then the hungry-hearted, the thirsty, the disillusioned, the disappointed and the sick will come our way. They will come because they will want to come, and they will know why they are coming. They will not come because a person invited them but because of Christ Jesus. The church will begin to grow. It will grow in power, in grace, in numbers, in usefulness, in prestige and in influence. Everybody will know it is the church that the Lord has blessed.

Matthew 5:6; Luke 4:18–19; John 12:21; Hebrews 12:1–2

Rut, Rot or Revival: The Condition of the Church, 137.