Do you remember how you felt when you first met Jesus and knew He was your Lord and Saviour? Unspeakable joy, a heart on fire, ceaseless prayer... but when love is unattended or misguided, we may find ourselves abandoning our passion and just going through the motions. This happens to churches, too! In today's message, we read in Revelations about early churches that had lost their fire for the Lord. It's a powerful reminder that our church is more than a building and people... it's the body of Christ Himself.
The theme throughout the old testament is that of the coming Messiah. We learn in today's passage that Jesus - the Messiah - came...
John Newton's well known hymn, "Amazing Grace" uses words taken directly from today's text. "I was blind but now I see" exclaims the man...