Stop being afraid of man, and stop the fear of the congregation all you cowardly pastors. Get the Fear of God back in your life and start to kick some buts for crying out load!
Why on earth don’t the pastors in all this churches confront the lukewarm? Because they are also in the darkness! And they also don’t want to come to the light. Why because of the love of money. They are concerned about the tiding, the 5 % or less, their job, their income. They are also cowards who purposely hold the congregation in ignorance so they can stay.
You see there are no room for repentance in lukewarm. We can hope for turning to hot, but the normal way will be and should be through cold. That means that to turn from lukewarm to hot there is a great danger of just being something between lukewarm and hot which is still lukewarm. So how can they get cold?
Well they have been told for so long they are ok and on the way to Heaven so their disobedience and sin have made them more or less unable to listen to the Holy Spirit. They need to be confronted with the Word of God from the pulpit, or directly in a conversation. It is still from the Holy Spirit if it is done with Love.
Normally they will leave instead of repenting and find another congregation witch suits into their lukewarm state, which is of course very easy. Therefore they have to be confronted so severe that they don’t forget it even if they change church. It will follow them at night in bed and in the car to work. They will hate you for doing that, but there is a reward for you in Heaven.
Because if their heart is right and it is the devil who has just tricked them they will in the end repent. There is not much greater love you find than in the “lost son”. And they came out humble and full of willingness to serve in the harvest field. If they have a harden heart full of rebellious unbelief they will not repent, but you have then after all get them away from young people who they often influence.
Stop being afraid of man, and stop the fear of the congregation all you cowardly pastors. Get the Fear of God back in your life and start to kick some buts for crying out load!
To buy onto this false teaching ends always up in confusion. And from confusion to lukewarm the road are very short.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].
Eph.5:11