The church should be a place that all of us want to attend, and are not forced to attend. It is easy for a church (a group of believers) to suck the joy out of people. Like anything, if we are not careful, then our Christian lives will become nothing more than ritual. The Christian life should be full of vitality and purpose, if it ever becomes just ritualistic, then it dies a slow death. Sometimes the death is so slow that no one even notices. Just like a hot cup of coffee. How much temperature does the coffee lose by just sitting there? We must all be reheated and stirred with passion. Re energized with passion purpose and focus. All too often the church, and the believers in that church building allow themselves to grow lukewarm over time. “Stir up the gifts that are within you!” It is a series of small gradual steps to regress from lukewarm to cold and dead. We desperately need the Holy Spirit to blow through the cold dead lifeless churches and give life to those that are withering on the vine. It is an awful way to go to hell, by sitting on the pew. Whatever happened to vision and purpose??!! “Without a vision, the people perish. Whatever is hindering a church service from flowing freely, needs to be escorted out. Passion that is allowed to slowly die will turn into the worst form of outward religion. Fruit left on the vine and not allowed to be harvested becomes rotten and useless. There is nothing more hideous in the eyes of the Lord than those that pretend to have life but on the inside they are dead and cold and unmovable. Once a church gets into the routine of formalism and outward religion, it is a slow progression until everyone in the church gives way to the spirit of religion. The Holy Spirit will only allow Himself to be quenched for so long before He will give the place that was once full of His glory, over to the Spirit of religion. But there is hope. If you attend one of the places of His former Glory, ask the Lord to speak life into those dry bones. Pray and fast. If the dead bones refuse to come back to life, and allow the Lord to return life unto them, then get out of there and go find a church that is full of vision, uplifts Jesus, and Glorifies the Father. A church that lets God be God because they believe in and receive miracles!
Revelation 3:15′ I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16’So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 17’Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked
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