Oh, yes, the Lord has blessed our labors through

the years, because He is the God of grace

and mercy. But what greater blessings have

been all withheld or simply put beyond

our reach because we choose the course of drift

instead of sailing in the Wind of God,

according to His Word?

It’s not necessary to sell all our buildings and scrap all our programs to begin recovering some of that spiritual power which fueled the early Christian churches. But we must face up to the reality that our approach to “doing church” has little resemblance to what we see in the New Testament. Only as we acknowledge this can we begin to halt the drift that we have experienced for so long. Here is Part 5 of our blank verse essay, Absimilation.