When Moses tarried in the mount, Israel became bored with the faith that
sees the invisible and clamored for a god they could see and touch. And they
displayed a great deal more enthusiasm for the golden calf than they did over
the Lord God of Abraham. Later they tired of manna and complained against the
monotony of their diet. On their petulant insistence they finally got flesh to
eat, and that to their own undoing.
Those Christians who belong to the evangelical wing of the church (which
I firmly believe is the only one that even approximates New Testament
Christianity) have over the last half-century shown an increasing impatience
with things invisible and eternal and have demanded and got a host of things
visible and temporal to satisfy their fleshly appetites. Without Biblical
authority, or any other right under the sun, carnal religious leaders have
introduced a host of attractions that serve no purpose except to provide
entertainment for the bored saints.
It is now common practice in most evangelical churches to offer the
people, especially the young people, a maximum of entertainment and a minimum
of serious instruction. It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to
attend a meeting where the only attraction is God. One can only conclude that
God's professed children are bored with Him, for they must be wooed to meeting
with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games and
refreshments.
This has influenced the whole pattern of church life, and even brought
into being a new type of church architecture, designed to house the golden
calf.
~A.W.Tozer
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