Lonnell Williams

A church does not need louder opinions from unsubmitted hearts.

And some of you guys don't need bigger microphones.

Some of you need deeper altars.

And because this is an equal opportunity church, I'm not just going to talk about the people who talk about the church.

I'm going to talk about the church too.

There was a critique of the believer against the church, and I'm going to start that critique with pastors.

I'm going to speak directly to you, and I hope you hear me.

What has the church become?

It has become a place for self-help groups and fashion shows.

Every Sunday, you got on a brand new outfit, $1,000 plus, but can't preach nobody into heaven.

It has become a position of self-promotion.

It has become a concert with a sprinkle of Jesus.

And people and pastors are afraid to preach repentance, afraid to preach hell, afraid to preach Jesus is coming back because you are more concerned with butts in your seat and money in your pocket than salvation.

Help me, Holy Ghosts.

So you water down the gospel and you turn church into therapy sessions.

You read one scripture and then you give them this pericope of all the things you know.

But you don't crack open that word and you don't tell people that you will go to hell if you don't get right.

You don't tell people that Jesus will return.

You don't say Maranatha.

Lord, come.