This Article Is Better Than Those Other Ones

  You may have noticed the ever increasing number of negative ads in the upcoming election. When most people are surveyed about these ads they claim to dislike them and wish candidate would not run them. So why are candidates using them more and more? They work! 

  Most people are uninformed about the complicated details of most issues, so they can’t see thru the half truths and manipulation that come in candidate bashing. It is much easier to convince voters how bad others are doing than how the candidate can do it better. 

  That same mentality can infect the church. We can look around and see problems in other places. By   “running down” others, it makes us seem better even if we are doing nothing! But when God looks at a churches in Asia in Revelation 2-3, those that are doing nothing are scolded as harshly are doing wrong. He tells the Church in Laodicea, “‘I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. ’So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.” As Will Rodgers put it, “Even if we are on the right track, we get run over if we just sit there”