Crickets
Crickets. That’s what you hear when you’re sitting around a campfire late in the evening. Not the sound of Fox News or CNN. Not the firing of weapons from Call of Duty. Just the joyful song of crickets.
It’s also the description we give when there is absolutely no response to something… when people are quiet. Pastors talk about this often: “When I preached on ______________, it was crickets out there.”
I suspect the subject of living a quiet life with less is one of those cricket-inducing themes in the American church today.
The shouts and hanky-waving and “Amens!” are gonna come with statements like… Read More