Contributed by Charles Newman on Mar 16, 2009
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A church that is spiritually dead can still hold services, sing hymns, offer prayers, deliver sermons, and do works of ministry – they can go through the motions of “doing church” but they will never be the church without being alive in God’s Holy Spirit!
                
                    
                        INTRODUCTION
Modern Day Scene: A paramedic arrives on an accident scene with what seems like a lifeless body; no pulse, no breath – CPR begins and instead of taking the body to the morgue, they go to the ER. Jesus has pronounced the church at Sardis as dead. Yet there is hope. 
A church that is
                        
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                        Methodist