Gadgets, technology, and other gizmos must never take priority in our ministries. Just because we’ve installed a new project, sound system, or new website page, we must not forget we are serving and ministering to people. Yet, I believe to some extent things like this have consumed our focus too much. Now, don’t get me wrong tech in ministry is helpful and useful. It does make us more productivity, but many times too much of it steals away our prayer lives, our Bible reading, and our love for Christ.

I just finished reading an article called “Gloucester Teens Had Pact To Get Pregnant”. It blew me away and the reason I wrote this post. I dare say that we preachers, teachers, deacons, evangelists, parents, grandparents are some caught up in what doesn’t matter and forget what matters. Forgive me if I seem harsh, but something is seriously wrong in our churches today.

What is wrong? Is it our pulpits are serving watered-down preaching? Is the church’s standards dropping and going with the come as you are crowd? Have Christians so closely aligned themselves with the world that they have forgotten that they are to be Christ like?!

If I may, it has come down to simply the lack of our love for the King of kings. The Bible says, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) The church’s love for the Savior has clearly diminished over the past 8 years even with a tragic event such as 9-11. Has it come to a point that Christians are missing the warning signs. Our choices of presidents show the kind of nation we have become- lukewarm, fence riders, wafflers, godless. John wrote about the church of Laodicea, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”

What our churches need is the eyesalve. The eyesalve was an medicinal ointment that was placed on the eyes. It is believed that eyesalve was made famous in Laodicea’s medical school. What the apostle John is trying to get this church to see is that it has a spiritual eye problem. They have a lot of great stuff, but they lack the power of God. What say you? Are you in need of eyesalve? Have you noticed a lack of the power of God in your ministry? What if one of those girls who made that pact where in your youth group?

Change must start somewhere, why not with you?