Article June 2, 1997 Issue

Feeling the presence of God in church

George Barna

Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators

People's reactions to the quality of their church experience were rather lukewarm. ... It is as if the key to their experience is the great missing ingredient: the presence of God, which is infrequently sensed. Without that, much of what takes place is simply human performance of rituals.

George Barna
From Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators
(Word Publishing, 1996)
Reprinted with permission