Essay
The Laodicean church was located in the city of Laodicea. It was a church from the New Testament one that the apostle Paul visited. The city of Laodicea was in the middle of two cities, Hierapolis and Colossae. In Revelations three, it talks about the church of Laodicea being ‘lukewarm.’ This may refer to the water supply in Laodicea, for it was lukewarm and basically good for nothing, whereas in Colossae, there was cold and pure drinking water. In Hierapolis there could be found hot luxurious spas. Therefore, like the cities’ water supply, the church was neither hot nor cold but was average in serving the Lord. The Anglican Church on the other hand was situated in England. This church is closer to the Roman Catholic faith because if you sat in the Anglican Church and closed your eyes, you would hear exactly what you would hear in a Roman Catholic Church. The monarchy in England during the 16th century, namely King Henry the eighth, decided to split from the Roman Catholic Church while at the same time maintaining very similar beliefs. The Anglican Church can be compared with the Laodicean church in three ways, as we can read in Revelations three. Here we can read that they were both rich and boastful and had compromising and shifting doctrine, while at the same time failing to exercise church discipline according to the ways which Paul had instructed. The Anglian Church also varied from any religion because it had no firm footings.
Firstly, they were rich and boastful. This was a dangerous downfall for the Laodicean church because the more they became rich, the more they became boastful, and the more they became boastful the more independent they became. This was dangerous for as they become independent, they started to think more of themselves then thinking about the Lord and serving Him. In this way, their lives were not dedicated to doing the will of the Lord; rather, they pursued worldly pleasures and material goods. We can read in verse 17 of...