My Cup Runneth Over

From Back Cover The Western Church stands at a crossroads, it is dying for lack of zeal and love for Jesus. Materialism and lust for "things" are choking the life out of Western Christianity. Pastors and congregants alike are drowning in Credit Card debt because they covet things they cannot afford. Other religions are spreading at a far greater rate than Christianity. The blame for this lies at the feet of the all-too-comfortable Christians, who profess to believe in Jesus, but deny Him by their silence and passivity. People become what their leaders are. Church leaders must be weaned from their obsession with offerings to keep their personal fiefdoms afloat. Churchgoers must get involved in spreading the gospel in word and deed and go out into the world, because the world is not going to come into the Church. The Church needs to reformat its hard disk and return to 1st-Century basics like faith and belief in a miracle working God. Faith in the name of Jesus still brings miracles, it is the Church that prevents them because it long ago began teaching that the age of miracles was over. Effective faith only results from absolute conviction, but true belief in Jesus, the supernatural, and the miraculous, has taken flight from the Church. Jesus said repeatedly, "According to your faith let it be to you" (Matthew 9:29). The Church must repent for its lack of belief in the power of God Almighty.