Title: A Church for the End of the World...Expects God
Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@ChristCommunityKC.org

>> The Problem: A lukewarm life

>>The diagnosis: An “I need nothing” attitude

"If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen…. But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful." - Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

"Dead orthodoxy: when true biblical faith is affirmed with our words and thoughts, but the heart remain stagnant and unchanged. Doctrine is biblical but the spiritual life the church of the believer is dead." - Mark Sayers

"Cold orthodoxy: correct biblical faith and doctrine are held. However a church caught cold orthodoxy works from the memory of the past move of God. Little vitality exist in the daily spiritual life church." - Mark Sayers

"Reaction against errors within the charismatic movement, in which emotion became disordered emotionalism, those who defined themselves as conservative or classical evangelicals sometimes retreated into a spiritual life with very little emotion.” - Christopher Ash, Teaching Psalms

“The Psalms show us how to develop strong and godly affections, and indeed fierce and healthy aversions as well. They train us to avoid both the unpredictable reefs of charismatic error and the deserts of dusty orthodoxy. For the Psalms perfectly combined thought and feeling, theology and prayer, emotion and reality, the subjective and the objective.
- Christopher Ash, Teaching Psalms