God Is Communicating

This month we have been focusing our Sunday messages on the Church and the role we each must embrace. With that in mind, I came across an excerpt from Charles Swindoll's book, "Living on the Ragged Edge." This is a book I read many years ago and I highly recommend it. The following speaks about not accepting the "idle" Christian life.
"I wish there were some way to announce over a loudspeaker system outside every worship gathering, 'The pew zone is for learning and listening and changing only. No parking.'
"You see why that's important? Because our favorite place to park is in a pew. Just come, sit, listen, and leave.
"So much of today's worship is dulledge stuff - meaningless words, cliches that sit like tombstones over dead ideas. God is speaking. That's the reason for the command. The living God is communicating.
"Come to terms with your lips, with your ears, as you envision yourself preparing for worship. Experiment with something different for a change. Be quite. Try silence.
"From the first strains of music to the last word of the benediction...learn to hitchhike on God's thoughts. Sometimes those thoughts come in the silence of the offertory. Sometimes they come as someone else is leading in prayer. Occasionally they come in the singing of a hymn. Draw near. Listen well, because God is communicating."