Leighton Ford, with whom Don Meeks is traveling in Ireland today, came to my home church in Atlanta to speak. After one of his messages, I talked with him and shared my concerns. Strengthen what remains and God can fan into flame His life in Christ in us. The final part of the remedy Christ, the Great Physician, prescribes for the church is to remember what they had received before, obey and repent. Memory is a special gift of God.
Nothing can stab the conscience so wide-awake as memories of the past.
The shortest road to repentance is remembrance, and we should let past history challenge us in our present endeavors. We should be a little more precise than just this. The specifics that Christ calls the church in Sardis to remember goes beyond simply the Gospel and Christ's faithfulness to them. This is the birthright of every child of God. Indeed, the greatest gift, outside of our salvation, that we as Christians have received is the gift of the Holy Spirit.