PART 7 – Jim Allen finishes his series on the “7 Churches of Asia” with a message on the letter to the church at Laodicea from Revelation 3:14-22. Looked at historically, he sees Laodicea as a picture of the charismatic movement. Practically he sees a wealthy glamorous church that was not aware of its real spiritual condition of poverty. Mr Allen works his way through the Lord’s message to this church sentence by sentence and makes challenging applications. (Message preached in Wallingford, Nov 2004)
Mr Allen’s complete outline:
Ephesus (fallen church): passion (70-170AD)
Smyrna (fearful church): persecution (170-312AD)
Pergamos (faltering church): patronisation (312-606AD)
Thyatira (false church): pollution (606-1517AD) and on to the rapture
Sardis (formal church): profession 1517AD to the rapture
Philadelphia (feeble church): power 1,700AD to the rapture
Laodicea (fashionable church): poverty 1,950 to the rapture
