Christian churches, as so many have known and experienced them, are perceived as (and in truth have been) dispensers of condemnation, guilt and shame, rather than as extenders of the “incomparable riches of God’s grace,” mercy, and unconditional love. (See Ephesians 2:7) Too many have become something Christ never intended: hard-hearted, spiteful and “religious,” almost oblivious to the fact that they are walking the same path as the Pharisees of His day, and they have not heeded the warning of Matthew chapter 23.

“The Church” is dying in the wilderness. But God isn’t leaving things at that. He is raising up a new generation is replacing them to fulfill God's directive. The Spirit of the Lord is moving upon "ordinary" people and the effect is both significant and profound.