Don’t Get Too Comfortable: A Message on Spiritual Deployment
Pastor Doug Lattimore opens 2 Corinthians 10 with a hard word for a comfortable church: the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, and unused faith fades.
On a recent Sunday morning, Pastor Doug Lattimore stood before Solo Faith Church’s digital sanctuary — members in Concord, neighbors across the Carolinas, and a faithful group of believers watching from Kenya — and asked one uncomfortable question from 2 Corinthians 10: what happens to a church that gets too comfortable?
Paul wrote 2 Corinthians to a community that had drifted. Corinth was a busy port city, loud and image-driven, full of people impressed by titles and appearances. While Paul was away, self-styled “super apostles” moved in, trading on prestige and making the church about themselves. Paul’s reply cut straight through it: the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Real power, Pastor Doug taught, was never about how impressive you looked.
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The heart of the message was a plain illustration. Pastor Doug described helping his wife through a workout, her knees aching as she squatted, and the reason he kept encouraging her: a muscle that is not worked will not work. Prayer, fasting, consecration, and time in the Word are muscles too — and comfort lets them atrophy. He pressed it further with his youngest son, Judah, who has every muscle his father has but hasn’t yet had the years to build them. Coveting another believer’s anointing, he said, is easier than doing the work — but God blesses the work, not the jealousy.
What made the morning feel like Solo Faith is what happened after the sermon. Paula, who runs a senior-care nonprofit called Prosperous Living out of Charlotte, told the room the message was “right on time.” Pastor Sam, joining from Kenya, said the warning against letting money or a business become an idol made him examine his own heart. The Kenyan believers, who gather week after week and were preparing a high school rally across some twenty schools, asked for prayer and offered it back.
That reach — a Concord pulpit heard in Charlotte and Kenya in the same hour — is the quiet shape of Solo Faith Church, a digital-first congregation at 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW in Concord, NC, whose full service streams each week at solofaith.org/watch. The church meets every Sunday at that address. Come as you are.
Originally published on the Solo Faith Church blog: https://www.solofaith.org/post/don-t-get-too-comfortable-a-message-on-spiritual-deployment
Community Support Note: This recap is part of Solo Faith Church’s community journalism initiative to share what is happening across our congregation and the wider Cabarrus County community. The account above was drawn from a provided transcript of the Sunday sermon and the testimonies shared during the service.
