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… like “the disciples on the road to Emmaeus”.
Speaking at a conference in Dallas on Friday, Brian Houston of Hillsong Church warned pastors to not become complacent.
Eli was unaware that God had been speaking to the boy Samuel; Jacob had been unaware of God’s presence; the disciples on the road to Emmaeus were unaware that Jesus, the Messiah, was walking alongside them.
“You can guarantee that there are things that we are unaware,” the Australian preacher told a crowd at Fellowship Church. “We are unaware of God’s purpose, unaware of God’s plan, unaware of what God wants to do in a service like this.”
“I want to encourage everyone here to not settle for living your life unaware.”
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“The last thing what I want to do is to look back and see what I’ve done… or have many conferences I’ve been to… and be unaware of what God’s wants to do in my life the years ahead,” he said.
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“It sits in words like mediocre and lukewarmness and half-heartedness” … “If there is one thing that would bring out God’s objection is that middle ground, just sitting somewhere in the middle. … The biggest challenge is not opportunity. It’s just sitting there in the middle ground.”
I would have thought that being less than the middle ground would be worse than being in the middle ground. God doesn’t like mediocrity, but God doesn’t really care about total slackness?!? Really?
Brian Houston Warns Church Leaders of Complacency | The Christian Post
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Hi Gez. It would appear that Brian is using the warning in the letter to the church at Ephesus; which is one of the seven letters to the churches in the beginning of Revelations.
There it says; I wish you were either hot or cold; but because you are lukewarm I will spit you from my mouth.
Yeah, I just can’t work out why a mediocre Christian would annoy God more than a non-believing mass murderer, based on what Brian said.