DMHO bandleader Denver Bierman applies a phrase or two from a different vernacular to this excerpt from the letter to the church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-21):
“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.” (Revelation 3:15-16, TNIV)
Hmmm…. (it’s Friday and work is nutty -please forgive me any indiscretions!)
Jesus Loogie Boogie
Denver & The Mile High Orchestra
Verse
All or nothing is how it’s played
So don’t go thinking you’ve got it made
Trying to ride the dotted line
Wasting so much precious time
This is more than a mere charade
You are neither hot or cold
That’s why this Christian thing to you is getting old
But you don’t have to live this way
Carrying round all this dead weight
Choose life abundantly today
You cannot love this world, and love God too
Two faces can not hide the apathy in you
So it’s one or the other, but you’ll have to choose
So, take this advice from me
Chorus
Don’t you be a Jesus loogie
To be so lukewarm He spits you out of his mouth
Be on fire, with the Holy Spirit
Be so hot, that he won’t want
To spit you out
Verse
Don’t you tell me you’re satisfied
Fully content at merely being alive
Chilling out to the extreme, a lackadaisical dream
Why don’t you make up your mind?
You don’t have to live this way
He died so by His grace we may be saved
That wasn’t just for you and me
That was for all the world to see
Who sees that light in you today?
This mundane melodrama can have a change
If Christ ignites your should and fans the flame
En Fuego could become your middle name
So take this advice from me
Chorus
Don’t you be a Jesus loogie
To be so lukewarm He spits you out of his mouth
Be on fire, with the Holy Spirit
Be so hot, that he won’t want
To spit you out