A program without the Spirit is an activity that has no life.

Dr. Tony Evans describes the difference between being in ministry and just being in motion.

If the Holy Spirit is not operating in your life, in your home, in our church, there is no life there,

even though there are folk there.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives

of Dr. Tony Evans.

Dr. Evans says increasing your Christian commitment isn't a matter of just taking on more

activities.

It calls for something deeper than that, and we'll find out what it is as we turn to

Revelation chapter 3 for today's lesson. We are studying overcomers as John the Apostle writes

the seven churches of Asia as a template for all the churches that would come. Today we take a tour to Sardis, Sardis Bible Fellowship,

located some 50 miles east of Smyrna.

Sardis was the church of what's happening now.

It was the in place to be.

It was the hot location in town

for folk who wanted to go to church.

If you wanted to go to church,

you went to Sardis Bible Fellowship

because that place was smoking.

That place had it going on. In fact, he says in verse one, you have a name

that you are alive. If we were to ask the folk around town about your church, they would say,

oh, they know what they're doing over there, they got it going on over there. Oh, they're serious over there. He says, you got a name, meaning you've got a reputation.

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