Too Much Sardis

Purify Your church, Lord. I'm afraid we have too much of the church of Sardis in us. We boast of our legacy, of our past accomplishments, of our incomplete ministries. We boast of our ministries of death. Too often, we have preached against social injustice--and we should--but we have not preached as well on the need for spiritual transformation--for the need for saving grace in the sacrifice of Your Son. Is it because we are spiritually dead ourselves? Are we striving to give men a Heaven on earth while condemning their souls to a Christ-less eternity, to a Hell of an eternity? We claim to give life. We call it love. We give death. It is injustice. Are we hiding Your light under the basket of a gospeless social gospel? Purify us, Lord. Start with me.