How can we call ourselves a church if
we don't preach that sin is black and
hell is hot and a future judgment awaits
all mankind?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we don't carry a burden for the souls
of men and if the carpet in our
sanctuary is not soaked in the tears of
broken-hearted saints over the lost and perishing
in our community?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we are not warning men and women and
boys and girls to their duty of repentance
and calling them to repent immediately or risk
perdition in a burning hell?
How can we call a church if we
are prayerless in our personal lives, indifferent to
the needs of others, apathetic to the spread
of the gospel, and hoarders with our finances?
How can we call ourselves a church if
the glory of God is not central in
the life of the church but self-preservation
is?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we don't preach up a bloodstained savior on
a bloody cross who died for sins becoming
a curse for us?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we don't preach the full counsel of God
of ruin, redemption, repentance, and regeneration?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we have grieved away the spirit of God
through conformity and compromise?
How can we call ourselves a church if
we are full of ourselves and fail to
preach the Christ who emptied himself?
How can we call ourselves a church when
we don't behave like Christians and care more
about ourselves than others?
Let us pray.