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What Is a Lukewarm Christian?

The term “lukewarm” comes directly from Revelation 3:15-17. This is the spirit speaking through John to the church in Laodicea. He says, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.”

The paragraph above was extracted from Crosswalk.com 

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-lukewarm-christian.html

James 2:24 

“As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.”

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Mathew 7:21

"Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father in Heaven."

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 Efesios 5:8-9

 8 " En otro tiempo ustedes eran tinieblas, pero ahora son luz en el Señor. Pórtense como hijos de la luz,  9  con bondad, con justicia y según la verdad, pues ésos son los frutos de la luz."

Biblia Catόlica Latinoamericana

St. Padre Pio

"Lord keep my gaze fixed on you. Hold me in your arms and guide me always in the way I should go. Amen."

Padre Pio's Words of Hope, Edited by Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti, 1999.

 St. Rose of Lima 

"The gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase."

The Essential Wisdom of the Saints (p. 101), Edited by Carol Kelly-Gangy, 2008.

St. Thomas Aquinas  

"Between the spirit and the flesh there is a continual combat. Now, if you wish the spirit to win, you must assist it by prayer and resist the flesh by such means as fasting (for by fasting the flesh is weakened)."

The Essential Wisdom of the Saints (p. 64), Edited by Carol Kelly-Gangy, 2008.

Juan 14:6

"Jesús le dijo: Yo soy el camino, la verdad y la vida; nadie viene al Padre, sino por mí."

Biblia Catόlica Latinoamericana

St. Francis of Assisi

"We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way. "

The Essential Wisdom of the Saints (p. 58), Edited by Carol Kelly-Gangy, 2008.

St. Catherine Labouré

"One must see God in everyone."

The Essential Wisdom of the Saints (p. 47), Edited by Carol Kelly-Gangy, 2008.