Thoughts on Contentment, Part 2

The thesis in the evening's sermon was this: Too many people today are satisfied—and they shouldn't be! They are content to be unsaved, saved but sour, spiritually mediocre, inconsistent, worldly, hypocritical, self-centered, "average," etc. Our pastor summed up five wrong ways of "contentment:"

• When contentment really is complacency.
• When contentment really is compromise.
• When contentment really is carnality (read 1 Cor. 3).
• When contentment really is callousness.
• When contentment really is carelessness.

He also gave us some ways to avoid this wrong sort of contentment:

• Be in and under the Word.
• Be "being sensitive" to the Spirit of God.
• Be submissive to the authorities in your life.
• Be involved with people.
• Be active with your faith, exercising and expressing it.
• Be growing in grace and wisdom.
• Be honest and willing to change.

(Thanks to Pastor Rawsthorne at Faith Baptist Church, Mattawan, MI)