Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth challenges us to be hardest on ourselves.

It's easy for us to just kind of broad brush this and say, yeah, the churches are in

really bad shape in our country.

They need revival.

But he says, let him, the one who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches.

He's saying this is not just for the corporate church.

This is for you personally. You're listening to the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth,

author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives. For August 9, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh. The church isn't perfect, but are you free to leave?

Nancy addressed that yesterday as part of this series on the letters Jesus wrote to his churches.

Now we find those letters in the opening chapters of

the Book of Revelation, and we'll explore them this month and next on Revive Our Hearts. If

you're tempted to think that what Jesus said to some ancient churches a couple of thousand

years ago isn't relevant to you, Nancy would say, think again. Some of you are probably familiar with a name John Stott,

who is a British theologian and author, pastor for many years. He wrote a book on the portion

of Revelation that we're studying, the first three chapters, and he entitled that book,

What Christ thinks of the church. I like that title. I have a number of books on this passage,

but that one is probably my favorite title, what Christ thinks of the church. And what Christ

thinks of the church should be a matter of interest and concern to every believer. You know,

there are a lot of books that have been written in recent years on what other people think about the church.

And you may have your opinion about the church, and the culture has its opinions about the church.

But the one whose opinion matters more than anyone else's is Christ.

What Christ thinks of the church.

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