I love the IHOP. At least, I used to. I am not thrilled with what it has become. The service there hasn't been too good the last few years, the quality of the fare and he crowd has declined and prices have gotten pretty high.
Jesus wasn't thrilled with what the IHOP had become either. In fact, He got downright angry about it. That is, the Intended House of Prayer.
Mat 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Mat 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
We need to stop and ask ourselves if today's IHOPs, our churches have become something they were not intended to be. Have we left our first love? Have we neglected prayer? Are others being glorified more than Christ?
How 'bout we all make sure that church be the wonderful thing God intended for it to be?
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