Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers.

Brothers and Sisters, Today I am declaring a state of emergency. The world is going through a famine — one that is degrading the very fabric of our society. There has always been some level of spiritual starvation, but not like this. We are living in a famine of hearing the words of the Lord (Amos 8:11). This famine has not stayed outside the church doors. It has crawled into our congregations and taken root in the very people who sit in the pews. We are drifting away from wh