Working from the Right Scorecard 5: Getting Beyond Appearances - Revelation 3:1-6

We are continuing our sermon series, Working from the Right Scorecard. Appearances can be deceiving. Have you ever bought something off of Facebook Marketplace that looked good? The seller said that it was fine, that everything was in working order, maybe it even passes your visual inspection. But you get it home and you try to plug it in and you realize that it's broken and you've been duped, you have been cheated. Have you ever been fooled by appearances like that? Something looked good, it looked safe, it looked alive, it looked like it was functioning, but in reality, it was not. In the scriptures that we're going to be looking at this morning, Jesus tells us that a whole church can be like that and that we as individual believers can as well. Everything can look fine on the surface, but the truth is, the roots are drying up, the inner life is withering away. Thankfully, we will see in the scriptures for today that Jesus loves us far too much to leave us like that. We will look at the letter to the church in Sardis from Revelation 3.Extra reading: Joel 2:12-14Preacher: Luke Dobrzanski