Nice writeup on the practicality of the message.Thanks

1. first the messages to the 7 churches were churches which existed when John wrote them.

2. The Churches have secondary meaning which also addresses the periods of time.

3. Each period Jesus describes the church according to its current surroundings and more.

4. The Lukewarm state is a mixture of hot and old and is neither hot or cold, we want to go to heaven, but do not want to let go of this world in all its fulness.

5. Jesus sees himself outside of the church and not inside sharing a meal with his church, while we are content on the inside and not know that Jesus is outside of the door knocking unless we are willing to hear his voice.

6. In practical terms the overwhelming majority of church members meet on Sabbath days in a back to face/face to back formation once/week and Christ prefers to be sitting face to face with his people and the only people in face to face meetings are the church administrators, boards or key and important people.

7. let the positive effect of the message of Jesus have its way on the 7th church and then we shall increase our face to face meetings, more members shall meet in one another’s homes, we shall meet at least twice/week and sacred history will repeat itself again, the church shall go full circle and the ministry of the early church and more besides shall be restored and spiritual gifts shall replace, our current church departments and the traditional church shall make way for the more biblical spiritual social home church, that shall be of a religion of relationships closer to Christ and each other at the same time, replacing the traditional church which is based on a relationship to religion.

8. Those who fellowship with Christ will increase their face to face relationship among fellow believers and in the mission field, we shall learn to love each other as Jesus loved his disciples, with few peoples in many places yet on the whole closer together and such will learn to overcame as Christ overcame until each one will become living throne rooms of Christ, until the glorious return of Christ together with all heaven with him.

9. This is the positive effect of the message of Christ in practical terms and lets do our best for the the negative response to the message of Christ does not have a greater effect upon our daily lives.