Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

Are you a lukewarm Christian? You've probably heard this question before, or maybe at least just the idea of a lukewarm Christian is familiar to you.

We often associate lukewarm as a middle ground.

Not bad, not good, just not super on fire.

We think a lukewarm Christian needs a pep talk. They need to go to a conference, get a new Bible study,

restart the engine a little bit. It's not great to be lukewarm, but it's better than being totally

cold or having no passion for God left. At least, that's how we often

tend to refer to this idea of a lukewarm Christian. But did you know that the idea of

being lukewarm comes from a passage of scripture in

Revelation chapter 3.

You see, Revelation 3 continues along in the seven letters that Christ has written to seven of

his churches. Now each of these

letters follow a similar pattern. We have a specific description of the one who's

writing to the church, that's Jesus, followed by a commendation and then rebuke of the church.

Then Christ offers a solution to the people, reminds them of the consequences of

disobedience, and ends by reminding the church of the promises for those who are faithful.

Now the very last letter, the letter to Leodicea, is unique in one regard.

There are no positive remarks. It's all bad, really, really bad. And it's in this letter

where Jesus calls the church in question Luke Warm.

And it begs the question, if in his letter to this church,

Jesus cannot find anything positive to commend them on,

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