But Not All

“Yet I reserve [a remnant of the Church]—all [who have not grown drowsy] and all [who have not fallen asleep].” (1 Kings 19:18, NIV 1984).

My Musings – I know I’ve taken a lot of liberty with the above text, but I wanted to follow-up on yesterday’s musings on “While the Church Slept.” In that blog, I briefly discussed the many (but not all) churches that have chosen to appease the world rather than confront it. Today, I want to discuss the “but not all” remnant.

The many, might be like the church or Laodicea. A church so entangled in the world, thinking it did not need a thing, not realizing they were pitiful. The not all could fit into two different molds. One like the church in Philadelphia. A church that kept God’s Word and had not denied His name. The other, maybe like the church in Sardis. In…