Like the city itself, the sentries or gate keepers in the assembly had fallen asleep on duty and did not stop the world from coming in. That's all of us, often God is used as an entitlement plane does not work.As you can see the extent of the national or personal damage done by failed thought processes.
The ecclesia simply met in homes, sophististry was not yet, they were spirit led of that time..
.They compromised so much with the world, from it;s paganized ideals they began to look like the world and the world . Their was no longer any distinction they would cooperate with everything and follow it. They had it easy, and they were coasting on the successes and work of the previous generation instead of writing new stories of great works for Christ.
This is extremely famuilar, there is no new thing, divided and each one grabbing what part of something they think makes up some kind of whole without ever taking the time to stop and see what it really is to stand in Christ.
Author of the book mentions this;
If your aseembly is not under attack, perhaps you need to do, as Sardis needed to do. That is first, repent and that repenting must include an underlying change of mind and dicernment in the assembly. You must step from death to life. Make the focus as reaching into world, instead of getting the acceptance of the world. NW taking the leap of faith. It;s a step we took 12 years back.
Acts 1,2,3.
NW
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