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After 25 years of serving the local church, I would say that church culture is as bad or worse in its love of the extreme. I have watched what seemed to be steady, well-grounded people get caught up in some new fad that sweeps through the church. Before long they are so certain this \\u201cnew thing\\u201d is the only thing\\u2026that they celebrate the new fad more than they celebrate Jesus and often look down with condemnation on those who don\\u2019t embrace the fad as passionately as they do.\\xa0

Those of you have been around a while can already start filling in the blanks of what those \\u201cfads\\u201d and \\u201cnew things\\u201d have been during your church experience and you can probably start naming the people who fit the description I just gave.\\xa0

I could give you a list the names of people I\\u2019ve personally known\\u2026some ministry leaders\\u2026 who were swept up in some fad\\u2026people who became self-righteous in their new found zeal\\u2026people who became critical of other Christians who didn\\u2019t share the same zeal for this \\u201cnew thing\\u201d\\u2026people who after the fad wore off and the church either split over the fad or returned to \\u201cnormal\\u201d\\u2026 these people walked away from their faith\\u2026completely disenfranchised.\\xa0

Don\\u2019t get me wrong. God has always moved by his Spirit throughout human history in ebbs and flows\\u2026tides that seem to rise, crescendo, and then subside. Genuine revivals break out among us that emphasize certain truths that the people of that time have neglected. Study church history and you will see\\u2026when we get loose in our living, when moral comprise becomes the norm\\u2026 a revival that emphasizes repentance, holiness, and righteous living will emerge. When we put God in a box and say that this \\u201ccertain way\\u201d is the only way God can move\\u2026revivals that emphasize the miraculous and the supernatural breakout and God really will move in a way he never has\\u2026simply to blow our finite minds. When we become legalistic, self-righteous and remove the joy of serving Jesus because the focus is all on the rules\\u2026a genuine revival of real grace emerges.\\xa0

The danger lies in the extreme.

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