This was an illustration from a radio interview with Frank Viola. It's not a direct quote. Just a summary in my own words. But it illustrates how we make church about a lot of things other than Jesus.
Illustration:
Frank Viola tells a story of a church gathering a simple Church gathering of probably 20 or more people they had some visitors who wanted to come in and join the group. Two men and they sit through the entire gathering and after the gathering they all went out for dinner. The men were telling the two visitors how happy they were to have them with them in the group. The two visiting men looked at each and began discussing the church service. He began by saying.
"We noticed something about your church service. All you ever talked about was Jesus. You couldn't stop speaking about Jesus, in fact Jesus was all you talked about. We counted actually and you group mentioned the person over 80 times in that gathering. However, we were alarmed that we never heard the name of the Holy Spirit once. All you ever talk about is Jesus. We want you to have the Holy Spirit.
One young man in the group, twenty something replied.
“Yes we understand that, as in the NT it seems the only Thing the Holy Spirit Ever Talks about is Jesus too.
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