A sleeping Church thinks her enemy is dead in the bottom of the abyss and does everything to keep away from any conflict small and great. It does not speak out against sin and false doctrines and accepts ALL people regardless of their lifestyle wishing that they will repent without pointing out what is right and what is wrong. Because they believe its the role of the Holy Spirit to convict sin not the Church, as if the Holy Spirit is NOT in HER. They are always thinking and analyzing how to make everybody happy and smiling.
On the other hand,
A fighting Church follows Jesus the King and does all it takes to preserve its faith and holiness. She RISKS her FAME and RELATIONSHIPS just to say what is TRUE whether people will ACCEPT Her or not for She knows that HER GROOM is HAPPY and ACCEPTS HER. Added to these, she goes out into the World not to be LIKE it but to win those that are willing to REPENT and BELIEVE the Gospel of Salvation. She is a LIGHT in the DARKNESS, and SALT in the midst of CORRUPTION.
Now, which Church do you belong, my friend?
"Fight the good fight of FAITH..." - 1Tim 6:12
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light. Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light. See then that all of you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:11-16
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