Dear friends!
In the web-site
http://www.gracefellowshipintl.com/articles.htm?pageid=articles
we read these lines:
"While many pastors faithfully teach the truth of our union with
Christ, few are comfortable in applying that truth I a one-on-one setting
when
discipling or counseling and seeing believers released from the results
of psychological trauma or growing up in a dysfunctional home."
"Too
many Christians have enough spirituality to make them feel uncomfortable in a
bar but not enough to make them feel comfortable in a
prayer meeting! In the
bar they expect to get mixed drinks; but, with the present state of the
church, they are likely to get a mixed message!"
And some more:
"The
church is the only institution that can offer an answer that will work for
time and eternity; however, the church of the 20th century has all
too frequently invested heavily in the "ambulance" industry and must get back
to basics if it is to have any credibility with believers and the empowering
to "turn the world upside down". Since many pastors have become
"ambulance drivers", it will necessitate some massive
retraining.
Getting back to basics means that judgment must begin at the
house of God. Only Holy Spirit revival will avail to bring about the sweeping
changes necessary to effect social reform in our country and in the world.
Those who have fallen off the cliff must refuse the "ambulance ride" and lose
their lives in order to save them. Only as they die to the answers proffered
by the world system will they know the power of resurrection life
and experience revival that will transform their lives and make them
instruments of transformation in the lives of others."
Dear friends,
do you remember these lines in Revelation:
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I
would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou
sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve,
that thou mayest see. (Revelation 3:14-18)
That's why church must be hot
only! If church will be hot we will win a victory over all problems! If Yeshua
(Jesus) is with us who can be against us?