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True Church Perspective

Letters To The Church Pt. 5 - Sardis

True Church Perspective

G. Craige Lewis

Gospel, Kids & Family, Christian, Secular Music, Adamant Believers Council, G Craige Lewis, Ex Ministries, Podcasting, Truth Behind Hip Hop

4.9799 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that a church can look alive and still be dead in the eyes of Christ? In this message, Pastor Lewis deals with how the church at Sardis looked alive and lived off their past reputation, but inwardly they were dead.

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0:00.0

We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

0:07.3

The way Christ rebukes the church.

0:11.3

Right?

0:12.0

Aren't we a church?

0:13.1

Aren't you a church?

0:14.1

We're a church.

0:15.1

So the way this is teaching us how Christ feels about the church.

0:20.6

You know, people always, well, I mean, how do I start a church?

0:24.0

And how do I, what should I do? And, and you know, that's the biggest problem. I said it in the

0:27.4

Jezebel video, but that's the biggest problem with the church. People just repeating what was done

0:31.6

before them. Like, didn't stand, didn't sit down and ask God. i was guilty of that i'm going to tell you the truth

0:38.4

when we first first started before we started the house we were in a building and we had a church

0:44.6

for three weeks in this building and i was starting the church the way i saw it on tv and

0:49.6

god stopped it after three services and told me no that ain't it and we ended up losing the

0:57.9

building and I almost ended up losing my mind and we went through that whole period and started

1:04.3

in the house and started it the way God wanted it started and I had to back up and I had to ask

1:09.0

God okay what's wrong with this what's wrong with that what's wrong with God began, okay, what's wrong with this? What's wrong with that?

1:11.0

What's wrong with God? Begaining to show me what's wrong with this. Why you shouldn't do this? Don't do that.

1:15.8

Don't do this. I'm like, but this is what everyone is doing. Don't do it. And I had to realize God has a

1:23.2

plan for his church. Christ knows what the church needs if he's the head of it. And I had to listen to

1:29.7

him and I have to learn. And I'm still learning. As long as it's Christ, you never learn at all.

1:38.4

Amen. Because you look at somebody's saying, because you ain't Christ. You're just not. Amen. So after that period, I had to really seek God about

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