Book Review: It

It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It, is one of the most dangerous books in America. if every pastor, minister, church leader, Sunday school teacher, board member, deacon, or elder would read and, then employ Groeschel’s message….everything in our church culture would DRASTICALLY change.

Instead of tepid, lukewarm country clubs, churches would be overflowing with love, grace, and generosity.  Instead of passive, weak, and fearful leaders, men and women would boldly go to great lengths to share the Gospel and be the hands and feet of Christ.

People would be confronted with the reality of their brokenness and need of a Savior.  And most of all, pastors would admit to their lack of faith, their willingness to settle for the status quo, and they would humbly beg God for healing and reconciliation.

Our churches would no longer be “Christian Country Clubs,” they would transform into joyous houses of worship to a God that loves them and meets them where they are at and changes them forever.  It would stop being about “me” and start being about “Him” [Jesus].

There would be a resurgence of the Christian faith that would rival the first century (Acts) churches.  A true revival would spread throughout this nation and into the whole world.

The danger of It, is that it all starts with the individual, each of us stopping what we are doing and take a Godly view of our lives, our ministries, our relationships, and filter them through the expectation of what our lives SHOULD be.

I want it.  I need it.  I’m not 100% sure I ever, truly had it…but I have had a taste of it, and it is glorious.  Our churches need it.  We all need it.  And God wants to to give it to us.  Will we humble ourselves enough to ask for and receive it?

QUOTABLES

• “God makes it happen.  It is from Him.  It is by Him.   It is for His glory.  We can’t create  it.  We can’t manufacture it.”
• “It is not a model.  It is not a system. It is not the result of a program.  You can’t purchase or manufacture it.  It can’t be copied.”
• “Not everyone will get it.  It can’t be learned from a classroom.  Yet even though it can’t be taught, it can be caught.”