“I don’t think the writer and poster connects the analogy of the Laodicean church with her own situation very well.”
On what basis of knowing me do you say that?
Oh I don’t think I have to “know you” to recognize a non seqitor.
I know many churches and groups do many things for the poor and needy just because you don’t see them. Americans by all measures give more per capita to charitable causes and for world relief missions than the rest of the world combined. We log more volunteer hours. The nation has lots of problems and it seems like the sinful have the loudest voice right now. Yet the reason why you don’t hear of the “good” doing good for God is because it doesn’t make the news. Christians simply being Christians and staying out of trouble, living righteously, raising their families, active in their church communities aren’t the ones making the news. They in reality are the only glue that is actually keeping things together right now. The Bible says the world hates us because the world hates Christ. Still like Elisha the prophet said...”There are more with us than against us” and the person he was speaking to had his eyes opened to the the angelic hosts of the Lord.
One of my favorite photographs was 4 highschool senior males...black and white gathered around the trunk of a car...the photographer was a woman curious about what was going on. She discovered that these 4 young men gathered every morning before school to pray and read scripture. There are many small groups like this, praying and doing what they can.
You have your sphere of influence the Lord gives you..others have theirs. God raises up nations and throws them down and our fate may be like others...but what can we as individual Christians do...serve the Lord as best we are enabled to do. There is still salt with savor in this country so don’t be so despairing. Darker times may be coming but grace shall abound more!
There is more than “one church” in America. You find churches which are of all the attributes of the original 7 churches and God will deal with all of them as he did with the original 7.