The Love of Christ Keeps Our Lamp Lit

Why is the church not filled on Sundays?

Why are their so many excuses for not making Sunday morning worship a weekly priority?

Why is attendance so inconsistence?

Have you ever asked these questions?

Sure you have! We all have asked these questions.

The real question is when do we ask ourselves about our worship services.

Do we even think about church worship attendance, before Sunday morning?

Do we wait until we pull into the parking lot, before we wonder? who will show up?

We are so busy in the summer and we have grown custom to accepting sporadic Sunday attendance that we have accepted the attitude “Who are we to judge; judge not, less you be judged. Right?”

The summer slump has become the norm. As summer runs it course, publishers plan their prophets around promoting “Back to Church Sunday” Church materials.

Friends, if we want to get christians back in the Church, we need to get worship of Christ back in the church.

We need a revival. Church revival is simply worship renewed.

Renewed Worship strengthens our witness.

A strengthened witness brings in more worshippers.

More worshippers revives church attendance.

Therefore; church revival begins with Renewed worship strengthening our church witness.

When worship wanes our witness weakens. This is not a new problem. Christ writes to seven churches in Asia Minor, who face the same problems we face.

Culture constantly completes with God for our Worship.

In Revelation 2–3, Christ sends seven messages to correct worship weakness that every church will eventually face. Christ lays out a pattern in these messages that guarantees to renew worship, which strengthens our witness to our community.

The image Christ focuses our Worship.

Afresh vision of Christ is important in Ephesus, because Ephesus had so many things competing for worship.

More worship centers existed, in Ephesus, than there were days in the week.

It was the wall street of Asia minor. The temple of Diana housed the bank of international trade.

The temple was the Metropolitan of the art world.

Emperor worship decided economic stability.

Manufacturing of idolatry posted gains every year.

In the midst of all these promises, Jesus commands John to give teh church a fresh vision to refocus their worship.

Christ gives us an honest evaluation of His image of us.

Christ knows who we are, what we are doing, and why we do the things we do.

Christ’s compliments our efforts.

He says He knows completely the work of the church. He knows how hard we work. He the extent of our devotion to defending the doctrine of the faith.

1 John 4:9–11 NASB95

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Christ provides a correction plan for our worship.

Remember

Repent

Return to doing what you first did.

Christ promises we will worship in His presence.