I'm afraid today that there are numbers of Churches in Australia, that if you were to do an autopsy on them you would find out that they are dead or dying.
There are Churches where their spiritual hearts have stopped… and some of them a long time ago. Some Churches when you look at them you can see that they are almost impossible to revive, unless the great physician, the Lord Jesus is allowed within the doors of their hearts.
I think it is important from time to time to check the pulse of any Church to see if there is signs of life. It is so easy for believers to grow cold and to walk around in a comatose state, unconscious to the things of God and unconscious to a lost and dying world.
Now in the Book of Revelation Jesus gives a description of seven If you examine the churches in the Apostle, John's day in Asia Minor. There was one church in Asia Minor, out of the seven that Jesus describes as being dead, it was the Church at Sardis.
Sardis should serve as a warning to any church of the potential of spiritual decay and death in the life of the Church and the life of the individual believer.
Now… how different the early Church was in the Book of Acts compared to the Church at Sardis.
1. The early Church was a Witnessing Church 2. The early Church was a Warring Church 3. The Early Church was a Waiting Church.
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Vincent Wall
Dead or Alive? Church Life & Growth Vincent Wall Sermons
Vincent Wall is an Australian preacher who has ministered in Churches in Sydney and Country NSW since 1995. He currently has an itinerant preaching ministry and is the author of the book titled, Tradition or Truth.
"Tradition or Truth" is written to help Roman Catholics...
