God’s intention is that He will work so powerfully through His people that others will come from far and wide to experience Him in the same manner. Our churches ought to be magnets for people who need God to work powerfully in their lives. The church’s reputation ought to extend far beyond its borders because of the mighty things God does in it.
God promised that when His people obeyed Him, He would work powerfully in their midst. Yet if His people rejected Him, God would turn His back on them. As a result, instead of foreign nations coming to worship God in His temple, they pillaged, looted, and razed it to the ground because it appeared that there was no power contained within it.
Do those outside your church respect your God? Do they recognize that something powerful happens in your midst because of the God you serve? Are unbelievers drawn to your God?