At Ease in Zion


Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria...(Amos 6:1a, NIV)

The word complacent in the dictionary means "self satisfied, or content, exhibiting self-satisfaction." Never has there been a time in 2,000 years of Christianity when we have become more at ease than in the American church. In any given city in America you will find thousands of Christ-followers with endless ads and billboards, each shouting to the world to come and visit them. Yet in the shadow of their steeples and a stone's throw from their conferences, there are masses who are literally dying and on the razor's edge of a damnable eternity. Consequently, these we have left the pure and undefiled religion for a self-gratifying and self-pleasing one.

A world that is careening out of control, bordering on suicidal and at the ragged brink of eternity, in a great valley of decision as it fluctuates between Heaven and Hell, does not need our latest CD, program or book; it needs a demonstration of Jesus Christ.

In all of our conferencing and meeting, we have lost the brokenness of Christ; in so doing we have grieved the Holy Spirit. There is still only one dynamic that brings more joy in Heaven that is already there - when one soul is saved. Satan will give "all the kingdoms of this world" for one soul. How great a tragedy when Satan values a soul more than we do?

When hell and its hordes invest more time and energy into the streets of our cities than the Church does, we are in terrible trouble. Amos and Haggai must have somehow been related in their message. In Haggai 1:4 the prophet asks, "Why are you living in luxurious houses while My house lies in ruins?"

The Church of tomorrow will not be marked by self-seeking and self-indulgence, but by a generation of passionate worshippers, soul winners who will follow in the footsteps of Christ. "For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10) Are you one of these?

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