"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth." (Rev. 3:15-16)

There was a ship discovered many years ago among the icebergs of the Arctic ocean, with the captain frozen as he was making his last entry in the logbook. The crew was found, some in their hammocks and some in the cabin, all frozen to death. The last date in the logbook showed that for thirteen years that vessel had been moving among the icebergs, "a drifting sepulcher, manned by a frozen crew."

Are there not churches in a like condition? Chilled by formality, worldliness, and sin, they have sailed away from the sunny region of blessing and prosperity, and floated into the icy waters and deadly slumbers of the frigid zone. (From 1000 Evangelical Illustrations, p. 52-53)