Wake Up!

"I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive--but you are dead." 

Revelation 3:1 (NLT)

Jesus pronounced the church at Sardis dead, although those in the church and the surrounding neighborhood apparently had not noticed. They had a reputation for being alive--there was movement, there was activity, but they did not meet God's requirements. Nothing they did was reaching the heart of God--not their prayers, not their worship, not their service.

What is the prescription for revival?

 "WAKE UP!", Jesus says. "Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead...Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don't wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief." (Revelation 3:2-3)