We all left wanting more...

What is it that makes people get up from their seats, come down to the altar, and pray in the middle of a church service with no invitation?

As Pastor of one of the largest congregations in the United States, Steve Gaines has experienced the routine of church, and is familiar with the programs, building committees, and operations that are involved in growing “megachurches.” But no matter the number of people that sit in the pews on Sunday morning, if God doesn’t show up, no one will be moved, hearts will be left unstirred, and nothing will have changed. 

In When God Comes to Church, (B&H Publishing Group, January 2007), Gaines provides the best definition of revival: “the glory of God filling the house of God.”  He explains that we don’t need a bigger facility or a larger budget nearly as much as we need the presence and power of a holy God.  When He touches people, they’re never the same.

"When people leave our churches today, we have failed if they say to one another on the way to their cars, 'Wow, what a sermon!' 'Wow, what a choir!' 'What a preacher!' 'What a classy building!' 'Wow, did you see that cool thing they projected on the big screen?' But if they leave saying, 'Hallelujah, what a Savior!' we will have succeeded. We will have steered their attention to the only thing - actually, the only One - worth remembering."

For more information on this book, visit http://www.broadmanholman.com/whengodcomestochurch/.