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

Dr Tony Evans describes the difference between being in ministry

when 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's folk there.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Dr. Evans says increasing your Christian commitment

isn't just a matter of 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 three 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 folks who wanted to go to church. If you wanted to go to church, you went to go to church you went to Sardis Bible Fellowship because

that place was smoking that 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 serious over there.

He says, you got a name, meaning you got a reputation.

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