The God Chasers

I have just started to read Tommy Tenney's book 'The God Chasers'. Just wanted to share three quotes.

1. Talking about people who don't want to go to church and don't call themselves Christians: 'You can't tell me they're not hungry for God when they wear crystals around their necks, lay down hundreds of dollars a day to listen to gurus, and call psychics to the tune of billions of dollars per year. They're hungry to hear from something that's beyond themsleves, something they are not hearing in the Church of today. The bottom line is that people are sick of church because the Church has been somewhat less than what the Book advertised! People want to connect with a higher power!'

2. 'We're like bakeries that are open, but have no bread. We just like the chit-chat that goes on around the cold ovens and empty shelves.'

3. 'I believe that God will literally destroy the Church as we know it if He has to so He can reach the cities. He is not in love with our imperfect versions of His perfect Church. He is only out to claim the house that God built. If our foul-smelling, man-made monstrocity stands in the way of what He wants to do, then He will move our junk pile aside to reach the hungry. His heart is to reach the lost, and if He spared not His own Son to save the lost, then He won't spare us either. We must move in agreement with what God wants to do.'

(Italics are as in the book)

Although it is now 7 years since this book was first published, it is well worth reading if you have not already done so. All that he says resounds deep within my spirit.