It looks like it is alive, but it is really dead. This is true for those wo are false professors, but not real possessors of eternal life. It is also true of those who sk to live on their past laurels. This is the church that has fallen into complacency and really isn't doing anyone any good. God wishes it was either cold or hot.
Cold water is refreshing, warm water is therapeutic, but lukewarm water is good for nothing.
Many in the church today are in this state. Responding to God's Revelation We have seen that repentance is often the missing ingredient in the gospel, message of our day. The call to repentance, however, is not just for the lost. Believers need to examine themselves. Make sure they are in the faith, and then make sure their lives are lived in conformity to the will of God.