The Danger of Lukewarm Faith: A Loving Wake-Up Call

The Compelled Podcast with Emma Mae

Emma Mae McDaniel

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this bold and Spirit-led episode of Compelled, Emma Mae McDaniel delivers a heartfelt and challenging message from Revelation 3, calling believers out of spiritual complacency. Drawing from Jesus’ letter to the church in Laodicea, Emma unpacks the meaning behind lukewarm faith—what it looked like then and how it still shows up in our lives today. With powerful imagery, historical context, and unflinching honesty, she reminds us that God’s discipline is rooted in love and that His correction is an invitation to closeness, not condemnation. This episode isn’t filled with warm fuzzies—it’s a wake-up call to rise, repent, and live fully devoted to the One who knows us completely and still calls us His own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, what's up? Incredible loved and valued people. I am so happy that we get to hang out today. Thank you for coming to this corner of the podcast world called Compelled. I love you so dearly. And our time together today, I'm just going to read one of
0:24.4	the verses from the passage that we're going to be hanging out in because it really embodies
0:28.1	what I'm praying that you take away from this podcast, one of the things at least. But Jesus says,
0:36.2	I correct and discipline everyone I love. That's something that he
0:42.2	says in the passage we're hanging out in today. And the reason that I wanted to start our time
0:47.2	together off with that is because today's message is not going to be all warm and fuzzy, good, happy
0:53.7	feelings. Today's podcast is a call out. Today's podcast is not going to be all warm and fuzzy, good, happy feelings.
0:54.5	Today's podcast is a call out.
0:56.9	Today's podcast is a challenge.
0:58.9	It is a call to rise up, a call to be who God has made us to be.
1:05.0	And so I want to invite you to lean in.
1:07.8	The enemy can use so many different things to keep us from stepping into the discipline
1:13.1	to leaning into the correction of God because he will use shame or he will use our excuses
1:20.2	or different things to keep us from owning up, from repenting, from leaning into the amazing
1:26.7	work that God is wanting to do in us.
1:29.7	And so I want to invite you today to surrender to lean in and believe these words of Jesus as we study today that he says,
1:37.2	I correct and discipline everyone I love.
1:40.4	Though this is a challenging call, this is a call of love.
1:44.5	Guys, we're talking today about Luke warm faith.
1:49.1	And we're going to be in Revelation 3, really spending time in the letter that John is writing,
1:56.8	he's pinning the letters, words of Jesus, to different churches throughout the start of Revelation.
2:02.4	And in Revelation 3, starting in verse 14, he's writing to Laodicea.
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