A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.