Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, May 5th. Are your priorities where they should be?

When your relationship with the Lord becomes secondary, it's easy to drift away from a holy lifestyle.

Let's learn more on the reality of your relationship.

When you and I look at the church today and look around us, what do we see?

We see a church that is very confused.

We see a church that has lost its way, and we see a church that is floundering for a sense

of direction.

We've got more money today in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the institutional church than ever before.

We have more trained preachers than ever before, more staff members than ever before, more beautiful edifices, more convenient, more comfortable buildings than ever before.

In fact, we have everything better than we've ever had it before.

And yet the problem is that while we are increasing in everything, our influence is diminishing

proportionately. Now, there may be many reasons, but I believe one of the primary reasons is

that in all of our program and all

of our attempt to build great churches, one thing that we have overlooked above all the rest is this.

And that is, we have forgotten what God said in the very beginning about our relationship to

him, that he is far more interested and impressed

by our relationship with him than what you and I can ever do for him. He's not interested in what we

do for him. He's interested in what we are in relationship to him. Now I want you to get this down.

Everything that we do, we do from one of two resources. We either do it from human resource,

whatever we are doing for God. We either resort to human resources within ourselves or secondly a heavenly relationship.

Either it's going to be the result of my human resource or a heavenly relationship.

Whatever we're doing for God, whatever our work may be, whatever the activity is,

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