Drawing Lines In The Sand

There comes a moment in every believer's life when standing in the middle is no longer an option. This message from Pastor Matt Cottrill on Sunday, October 11th 2026, takes us to one of the most dramatic confrontations in all of Scripture, where the prophet Elijah faces a nation that had not abandoned God entirely but had simply made room for other things alongside him. The haunting question posed to Israel that day still echoes across the centuries and lands squarely in our own hearts: how long are we going to remain undecided? What makes this passage so striking is not the boldness of the prophet but the silence of the people. They had nothing to say. And sometimes our silence reveals more about our spiritual condition than our words ever could. This message challenges us to examine the areas of our lives where compromise has crept in quietly, not through dramatic rebellion but through small adjustments, softened convictions, and boundaries that have slowly moved. The call is not to arrogance or self-righteousness but to a wholehearted, settled, and fearless devotion to Jesus Christ. We are reminded that we can love people deeply without agreeing with everything they do, that grace is not permission to remain unchanged but the very power that transforms us, and that the church was never called to blend in with the surrounding culture but to stand apart from it as a light set on a hill. If we have been drifting, this is an invitation to draw a line and declare once again where we stand.