The church can often feel like a big zoo where Christians, especially youths, are placed in their safe cages and constantly fed, said popular speaker Francis Chan.
Speaking at the Chinese Missions Convention in Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, Chan lamented the fact that churches do not understand the power that God has given each believer, and instead keep them in “cages” where the only way they can survive is if someone feeds them.
These cages include the children’s ministry cage, youth ministry cage, singles cage, and married couples cage, he noted.
“Let’s just put everyone in their cages and let’s just feed them every week and our whole job is to just keep feeding you, feeding you, and feeding you when the reality is you were made for something more,” Chan emphasized.
The zoo comparison was brought up by a pastor in Brazil Chan had recently met with. That pastor specifically pointed to the 2005 movie “Madagascar,” where a zebra who lives in the zoo wants to go to the wild but is surrounded by animals who are content with being in their cages and fed every…
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