This one is for those in church leadership...
In 2014, a man in Kentucky survived a house fire by sheer luck. The blaze had been smoldering for hours in the attic while he slept soundly beneath it. Neighbors saw the smoke. Sirens eventually screamed through the night. He stumbled out with just the clothes on his back, coughing and confused. The first thing he asked the firefighters was, “Why didn’t I hear it sooner?”
That question haunts me.
Because it isn’t just houses on fire anymore. It’s pulpits. It’s families. It’s truth. It’s entire communities going up in smoke while too many of us sleepwalk through the calling of God.
1. We Slept Through the Shift
Somewhere along the way, the Church stopped being a war camp and turned into a waiting room. We traded conviction for crowd size. We got more worried about who might leave than who might die without Christ. Culture changed and we… adapted. Accommodated. Softened.
But Romans 13:11 couldn’t be clearer: “Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”
This is not a time for comfort. This is a time for clarity.
2. We Kept Preaching but Lost Our Prophetic Edge
Too many pulpits are filled with words that never wound. Truth that never confronts. Light that never exposes.
Pastor, leader, shepherd, our calling is not crowd control. It’s not brand building. It’s not a curated Instagram platform.
We are watchmen on the wall. We are supposed to cry out when we see danger, not dim the alarm so it doesn’t offend.
Jesus said to the church in Sardis: “You have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead. Wake up!” (Revelation 3:1-2)
That wasn’t a message to the world. That was a message to the Church. To us.
3. We Forgot That Light Doesn’t Hide
The world is darker than it’s ever been in our lifetimes—but darkness is not our enemy. Compromise is.
We don’t fight darkness with trends or tweaks. We fight it with the fire of the Holy Spirit and the uncompromised truth of God’s Word.
Ephesians 5:14 reminds us: “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
But make no mistake, when that light comes, it exposes. It convicts. It causes riots. That’s what light does.
Maybe you’ve been tired. Maybe you’ve been frustrated, overwhelmed, and worn thin. You’re not alone. But this is not the time to pull back. This is the time to rise up.
Wake up your prayer life.
Wake up your fire for the Word.
Wake up your boldness to call sin what it is.
Wake up your urgency to reach the lost.
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