The Strength of The Gospel is it's own witness and not in mediocrity.

     “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.”40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

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    “I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

   The revelation of Jesus is that he will always show us our sin and reveal to us just what it is that we lack. It is the work now of the Holy Spirit within us to convict and point the way to God.  When Jesus was questioned by the Pharisee's about just who he was regarding his father, he bluntly told them there is one who witnesses of me and that is my Father of whom you say he is our God.  He always had the strength of witness on his side.  Not only for his works but for the faith he always tried to impart to those who would listen.  

    For those who revile the Gospel and fight it to in part cast doubt on it they are indeed missing the power itself that would set them free.  Everything that Jesus did was for us to set us free from a mindset of doubt and disbelief.  We are the ones responsible to either believe or reject what he has to say.  If we reject like the Pharisee's s then we remain in our sin because we say we see.   

   On the other side of the same coin there then is the lukewarmness that has crept in to our present day Church, a condition that will ultimately get us rejected by Jesus himself.  Re-read what he has pronounced on the Church of Laodicea.  It is a frightful place to be in.  The terrible brokenness  Jesus suffered on the cross was not for mediocrity.  It was in a mighty show of power over all of the forces of evil, every authority named came under subjection of Jesus Christ on the cross.  It was not weak.  So the next time we la di da our way through Church think of the great sacrifice the Son of God endured.  Otherwise we will end up on the ground spewed out of his mouth!