Change: Who Needs It?

So, I've been thinkin'.........

• Why is it that most people would rather be comfortable than challenged? 
• Isn't the greatness of America founded upon the willingness to go to great lengths to establish truth? 
• Isn't the Church supposed to be the main resource for Truth?
• If left to our own devices, don't we always settle for less (unless urged forward by a challenge)?
• When did we lose our concept of God as a loving but strict father and exchange it for a view of Him as a Pothead hippie who just wants everyone to be happy?
• Isn't the great hope of the Gospel that we can become something greater?
• Didn't Jesus promise us suffering and not comfort?
• What's so great about our current condition that we are afraid to give it up?
• Just because Jesus visits His people doesn't mean He approves of us.
• I think sometimes He comes to our churches in an effort to show us what He is, so that we will understand how far from Him we are.
• The Church is supposed to be trying to become more like Jesus, not make Him more like us.
• Feeling the move of God in a church service is all most people want. But moving towards God in our character is what Jesus really wants, don't you think?
• We have turned our aim in our gatherings to "Let's have a move of God", and that has replaced the early church's mindset of "Let's move the people toward God".
• As far as I can tell, God already did what He needed to do to tear down the partition between Him and mankind. Now it's up to us to enter through the veil. 
• Emotionalism has turned Pentecostals into a laughingstock. Maybe the unredeemed aren't mocking us because they are evil. Maybe they are mocking us because they recognize that we don't have much wisdom in our practices. 
• When we stop trying to get God's attention and start letting Him get ours, I think we might do some things differently.