Core Truth: At this moment in history, the greatest danger to the Church of Jesus Christ is not the terrible storms whose clouds are growing larger and more ominous every day, rather its greatest danger is allowing itself to become a spiritual somnambulist, a sleepwalker – one who walks or perform other actions while actually sound asleep.
Scripture: Luke 12:49-56
“I have come to cast fire on the earth; and how I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism of great suffering with which to be baptized, and how greatly I am distressed until it is accomplished! Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather strife and division! From now on families will be split apart, … They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘It is going to rain, ’ and that is how it turns out. And when you see that a south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day, ’ and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to analyze and intelligently interpret the appearance of the earth and sky to forecast the weather, but why do you not intelligently interpret this present time?”