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Those unfortunate souls who meander through life caring about nothing are at least consistently predictable: they do nothing, accomplish nothing, receive nothing, and – saddest of all – amount to nothing. They are the dead weight dragging down any church, business, or society. And worse still, their complacency is contagious.
Even the tiniest seed of indifference has power to produce a bitter harvest of stagnation and decay. Robert Hutchins, the respected American educator, once predicted, “The death of a democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
And what is true for governments is no less true of churches. Consider the first-century congregation at Laodicea, a church which, at least on the surface, appeared to have no problems. This church smugly boasted, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” In reality, they were “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:17).
Wake Up!
Dalton Key
via Chapman church of Christ
Ripley, MS