Luke chapter 24 verses 52-53.
(52) And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
(53) And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
One can only conclude that God’s professed children are bored with Him, for they must be wooed to meetings with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games, and refreshments.
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God: So we have the strange anomaly of orthodoxy in creed and heterodoxy in practice. The striped-candy technique has been so fully integrated into our present religious thinking that it is simply taken for granted. Its victims never dream that it is not part of the teachings of Christ and His apostles.
Any objection to the carryings on of our present golden-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, “But we are winning them!”
And winning them to what?
To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denials? To Separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world’s treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love to God? To total committal to Christ?
Of course the answer to all these questions is no.
We are paying a frightful price for our religious boredom. And that at a time of the world’s mortal peril.
A. W. Tozer.