LUKE WARM CHURCH - PASTOR ED CALDERON

THE LUKEWARM CHURCH

Revelation 3:14-22

15 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish

that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water,

neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!....

In one little Midwestern town, Miss Jones had the distinction of being the

oldest resident in town. So when she died, the editor of the local paper

wanted to print a little article remembering this dear old lady, except he

couldn't think of anything to say when he sat down to write the article.

Miss Jones had never done anything terribly wrong. She had never spent a

night in jail or had ever been drunk. On the other hand, she had never done

anything significant.

With this still on his mind, the editor went down to the local café,

and there, ran into the local funeral director. He too was having the

same trouble. He wanted to put something on Miss Jones' tombstone

besides "Miss Nancy Jones, born such-and-such a date and died such-and-
such a date," but he couldn't think of anything to write either.

The editor decided to go back to his office and assign the job of writing up a

small article for both the paper and the tombstone to the first reporter he

saw. When he got to the office, he ran into the sports editor, who got the

assignment. So somewhere in some little community in the Midwest there

is a tombstone which reads:

Here lie the bones of Nancy Jones,

For her life held no terrors.

She lived an old maid. She died an old maid.

No hits, no runs, no errors. (C. C. Mitchell, Let's Live!)

I'm afraid to say, "That's the way many Christians live their lives." They've

never done anything terribly wrong, but they never accomplish anything

significant for the Lord.

What about you? Do you consider yourself on fire? Or lukewarm for God?

The decision is yours, but you have to make it now, “as long as it is called