Are You Bored with Church?

Scripture describes many people who had a direct encounter with God, but not one of them was bored. Today, R.C. Sproul identifies the only reason why a Christian could be bored in the midst of worship.

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 hands 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.” 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.