Ephesians 5:14 says, “Get up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.” In a similar vein, Keith Green penned the lyrics, “The world is sleeping in the dark / That the church just can’t fight ‘cause it’s asleep in the light / How can you be so dead when you’ve been so well fed? / Jesus rose from the grave / And you, you can’t even get out of bed.”
Steve Camp would later write, “Hell is burning while the church is asleep.” The Bible and the preachers of it have been exhorting us to wake up for a long time. From what I can see from my life and the world around me, we are yet to comprehend the gravity of this message.