How to Be a Lukewarm Christian

Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "How to Be a Lukewarm Christian" on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware!

Andre Agassi became the world's number one tennis player while hating tennis, illustrating the exhausting reality of performance-driven living. Many Christians experience faith the same way - as an endless treadmill where worth is measured by effort, commitment, and spiritual achievements. This creates a cycle of never being good enough, always having another spiritual milestone to reach.

The traditional understanding of being lukewarm misses the deeper meaning of Revelation 3:15-16. Jesus says He would rather have us be hot or cold because both are useful, like hot and cold water serve different purposes. Throughout the New Testament, law and grace are two useful but opposite concepts that must never be mixed. The law serves as a tutor to lead us to Christ by bringing us to the end of ourselves, while grace is the actual agent of transformation that replaces our need to perform with God's perfect righteousness.

A lukewarm Christian isn't someone whose performance is lacking, but someone who cheapens God's law by believing their own effort can live up to it. When we mix law and grace, we neutralize both - diluting the law's power to bring us to our knees and diminishing grace's power to transform our hearts. True spiritual transformation comes not from trying harder but from resting in Christ's finished work, allowing grace to change our hearts from the inside out and produce genuine spiritual fruit naturally.