Front Page 11th February 2007

One of the most remarkable things Jesus said is revealed to us in the book of Revelation chapter 3 verse 20 when He said "Here I am I stand at the door and knock' Here was Jesus commenting on, in His view, the worst of all churches, the Church at Laodicea. In one statement, Jesus reveals to us His compassion and His desire to restore to the church the very thing we were created for, relationship with God. Here was a church, so complacent, so comfortable that if they were to take a good look at themselves, it should be them knocking on Jesus' door begging Him for forgiveness. Yet we see the opposite! What a wonderful revelation of His love to us as He seeks to restore that that was lost to this wayward community.
It is interesting that complacency is considered by Jesus to be the one quality in a church that makes it worse than any other. Why? Because it is the comfortable, and a complacent community does not see a need for a saviour.
In the Castlemaine Church of Christ I praise God that I don't see this attitude; on the contrary it is a pleasure to be part of a church community and Leadership that weekly seeks God in prayer (at 6AM every Tuesday morning) seeking His guidance and praising him for His provision.
Jesus gives us all a timely warning though to maintain our hunger for His righteousness and a zeal for a relationship with Him.
The warning serves to remind us that complacency is a 'disease of the affluent' and we need to guard against it at all times.
May our prayer be that we never lose sight of our need for a Saviour or our need for relationship.
God bless
Blair