the Katydid on Love, Home and Health

 Gail Staton

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Free Will Baptist

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“There’s an entire generation growing up in churches that don’t know what it’s like to worship with the lights on, with a hymnal in hand, and with a clear, sacred sense that they’ve entered the presence of God.

Instead, they’ve been shaped by LED stage lights, emotional build-ups, and branding masquerading as reverence.

Many pastors have become more concerned with mood, momentum, and marketability than clarity, conviction, and Christ. The sermons sound more like TED Talks with a sprinkle of Jesus. And in the process, we didn’t just lose worship. We lost our witness.

We don’t need louder music. We need men with fire in their bones and Scripture on their lips.

We don’t need gimmicks. We need pulpits that shake us to our core when they thunder the truth.

We need:

Biblical preaching that wounds the conscience and heals the soul.

Sacrificial leadership that bleeds for the flock.

Worship that centers on the glory of God instead of the comfort of man.

We must stop asking, ‘What will attract people?’ and start asking, ‘What will please God?’

Because the Church doesn’t exist to impress the culture. It exists to glorify the King.”