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  PROSPEROUS, COMFORTABLE AND SPIRITUALLY BORED
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: The church is suffering from spiritual complacency, caused by
comfort, wealth, and a lack of commitment to God's treasure.

Topics: "Eternal Perspective", "Spiritual Complacency"
Scripture References: 1 Timothy 6:9

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A.W. Tozer addresses the spiritual stagnation within the church,
emphasizing that while evangelical Christians hold sound beliefs rooted
in scripture and the teachings of the church fathers, they have become
too comfortable and complacent. This comfort leads to a lack of
commitment to the faith, resulting in a form of religious myopia where
eternal purposes are overshadowed by immediate concerns. Tozer warns
that this state of being spiritually bored and content with mediocrity
prevents believers from fully engaging with God and pursuing a deeper
relationship with Him. He calls for a renewed focus on the eternal and a
rejection of the trivial distractions that hinder spiritual growth.

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The evangelical Christian need make no apology for his beliefs. They are
in direct lineal descent from those of the apostles. He can check the
tenets of his total creed against the life giving, transforming beliefs
of church fathers both East and West, reformers, mystics, missionaries,
saints and evangelists, and they will check out one by one. Then let him
check them all with the Holy Scriptures and again they will prove to be
sound. What then is the trouble? Why the inertia, the torpor that lies
over the church? The answer is that we are too comfortable, too rich,
too contented. We hold the faith of our fathers, but it does not hold
us.

We are suffering from judicial blindness visited upon us because of our
sins.

To us has been committed the most precious of all treasures, but we are
not committed to it. We insist upon making our religion a form of
amusement and will have fun whether or not. We are afflicted with
religious myopia and see only things near at hand. God has set eternity
in our hearts and we have chosen time instead. He is trying to interest
us in a glorious tomorrow and we are settling for an inglorious today.
We are bogged down in local interests and have lost sight of eternal
purposes. We improvise and muddle along, hoping for heaven at last but
showing no eagerness to get there, correct in doctrine but weary of
prayer and bored with God.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/prosperous-comfortable-and-spiritually-bored/
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