[From Dww-work]… ON FIRE FOR CHRIST

“The idea of being on fire for Christ will strike some people as dangerous emotionalism…But wholeheartedness is not the same as fanaticism. Fanaticism is an unreasoning and unintelligent wholeheartedness. It is the running away of the heart with the head.

At the end of a statement prepared for a conference on science, philosophy and religion at Princeton University in 1940 came these words: ‘Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action; but reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action.’ What Jesus Christ desires and deserves is the reflection which leads to commitment and the commitment which is born of reflection. This is the meaning of wholeheartedness, of being aflame for God.”

John RW Stott in What Christ Thinks of the Church, p. 115

re: The Church in Laodicea,

Revelation 3:14-22

Romans 12:11

Acts 18:25

2 Timothy 1:6

WHOLEHEARTED; FIRE; FANATICISM; LAODICEA; REFLECTION; COMMITMENT; ZEAL; ENTHUSIASM

REVELATION 3:14-22; ROMANS 12:11; ACTS 18:25; 2 TIMOTHY 1:6