(Charisma Magazine) I know it’s considered a generalization to pin one issue on an entire nation, but America, we need to talk. I understand that it’s natural for our lives to follow a pattern, a daily, weekly and monthly routine that cycles over and over again. That’s fine. Really, it’s not this routine that I take issue with. But it seems to me that we in the American church have allowed our objectively neutral routines to create in our lives a spiritually fatal case of complacency. With the midterm elections approaching next week, we are being offered an incredible opportunity to break from the rut of our comfortable lives and take godly action.
It’s time for us to get up, get out and take part in what God is calling the church to do in this crucial, unprecedented season. The fate of our country and our hearts depends on it. The Word I see in the Bible that is most closely related to complacency is lukewarmness. In Revelation 3:15–16, God brings some of his strongest remarks against the church: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of My mouth.” Though these words were directed at the church at Laodicea, they could just as easily apply to the American church today. READ MORE
