“Our churches have explored and exploited our need to replace the numbness in our lives with a passion for something, anything. We’ve created worship in which the music is meant to stir the emotions, but so often the soul is left unmoved, and unfortunately the words spoken turn out to be little more than manipulations of the heart. We have created cathartic experiences filled with weeping and dancing in the Spirit that leave us with the sense that we have touched God, but that fail to give us the sense that God has touched us. We run to churches where the message feels good and where we feel energized and uplifted—but rarely if ever challenged or convicted.”
- Henri Nouwen
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