The Raw Beauty of Giving God Our Second Best

Is it possible for a church to have too much quality? That was the essence of a recent conversation I had with an old friend. “I left my small church because the worship, programs and preaching weren’t always great,” she told me. “But I came back to my small church because the worship, programs and preaching in the megachurch were done so well that it made me passive. The big church didn’t need me. My small church does. And I need to be needed.”

balloon girl 1240 x 697Is it possible for a church to rely too heavily on technical excellence?

Are millions of believers being lulled into passivity by the excellence of their church’s programs, without having my friend’s awareness of it?

Sometimes we need to give God our second best.

Before I tell you what I mean by that, let me tell you what I don’t mean by it.

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