The Sleeping Church

Revelations 3:1 "To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: `I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 `Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.

Today, I tweeted “I would love to give someone a car, or house, or tuition. Needless to say, my timeline went crazy with people responding to such a “Kingdom” statement. People with authentic needs responded with their mortgage amounts in which they had fallen behind. People responded indicating they wanted to go back to school and needed transportation to keep a job.

As I read the amalgamation of responses, I wondered where these individuals attended church, if they went. I began to click on some of their pages and saw their tweets and info about them and noticed that most were Christians.

They were Christians but in crisis.

Each week, The Word Center is bombarded with calls from people with needs. Sadly, these individuals attend churches with monthly budgets that exceed The Word Center’s yearly budget. Where are their churches?

The scripture in Revelation above referenced that churches are sleeping. I believe that they are also lulling people to sleep with irrelevant doctrine, music ensembles, and nonexistent vision.

• People are continuing to suffer financially, while the church is sleeping.

• People are continuing to suffer in their marriages, while churches are sleeping.

• People are continuing to suffer mentally, emotionally, psychologically and the church is sound asleep.

Wake up! The spiritual alarm clock should be the amount of Christians that no longer go to church because they knocked on the door of desperation and their church did not answer.

They were sleeping!

Wake up! The spiritual alarm clock should be the youth who have gone astray. They knocked on the door asking for help, but their parents were busy being deacons but not beacons in their home.

They were sleeping!

Wake up! The spiritual alarm clock should be the amount of Christian marriages faltering because of adultery, dishonor, or disconnect. They went to the pastor for help, but he was so busy with his mistress that he couldn't minister reconciliation.

WAKE UP! HE IS COMING!

Love and Peace

Pastor Rich