You know, it's inconceivable to me that somebody could know that they were in the presence

of God and be bored.

The problem is not stained glass.

The problem is not organs and quires.

When I read through the Bible, Problems is not organs and quires.

When I read through the Bible, particularly the record of the Old Testament, that gives us episode after episode after episode of encounters that people had with God, and you see that the human response to the presence of God is not homogenous.

It's different from person to person.

Sometimes when people encounter the living God, they're struck silent.

They can't say a word. Sometimes their knees begin to knock, their lips begin to quiver, rottenness enters into their bones, and they are terrified. Others record a response of being absolutely humiliated.

Job, behold, I am vile.

I'll place my hand upon my mouth and speak no more and repent in dust and ashes.

Some people are giddy with laughter.

Others are reduced to uncontrollable weeping.

But I have yet to find anywhere in here that when the living God makes his presence

known that somebody's bored.

That's inconceivable to me, that somebody could know that they were in the presence of God

and be bored.

Nor do you find people meeting up with God in the scriptures and walking away from

that encounter saying, well, that was interesting, but I don't see the relevance of it in my life.

Yeah, it's not, the problem's not stained glass.

The problem's not organs and choirs.

The problem is the absence of God from the center of our worship.

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