{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Church is Messy","title":"Dear Church: The Church in Sardis","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2062,"description":"So far in this series, we’ve looked at the unexpected messages to four churches in modern-day Turkey.\nUNEXPECTED MESSAGE:\n• It’s better to have no church than an unloving church.\n• It’s better to let a church suffer than to prevent it. \n• It’s possible for a church to stand up for Jesus while standing against Jesus.    \n• It’s possible for a church to wrongly value staying together over staying faithful.  \n• It’s possible for everyone but Jesus to be convinced that a church is alive and well.\nMessage Scripture Passage:\nRevelation 3:1-6\nSeries Thesis:\nKNOWING the truth doesn’t change anything. SUBMITTING to the truth changes everything.\nTopics Discussed Today:\n00:00 Intro\n01:00 Overview of the church in Sardis: unnoticed, irrelevant.\n01:45 The church in Sardis started strong but might have become routine.\n03:37 What does it take to avoid lukewarm faith.\n05:31 Usage of “woke” in Scripture compared to current cultural usage.\n11:38 What is Jesus looking for in a healthy church?\n13:42 What is the heartbeat of believers and the Church?\n15:17 Adoption, repentance, and the certainty of salvation in Jesus.\n18:56 Jesus knew us and our future even before we believed in him.\n21:40 God is gentle and kind to believers, even in discipline and rebuke.\n25:04 Is the Church for believers or non-believers? Or someone else?\n28:27 “The gravitational pull to be for ourselves is so strong.” Read 2 Corinthians 5 for the fix.\n30:30 What are three markers of a healthy church?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eGW0GjLFQWz3qpPjio-ji_5x5MOSNJlW79nf4VSHKIM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI4Mzk3LzE2ODMw/MzYzMDItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}