Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Procrastination is not a friend of functional Christianity. Rather, it’s a sworn enemy. Everything that makes Christianity work is based on “doing” and “action”. God goes out of his way to explain to us in the Scriptures that we can’t be tares, we must be wheat. We can’t be virgins without oil, we must be virgins with oil. And we mustn’t be goats that doddle, but sheep that do. Christianity was never meant to be a mere mental game where we sit around and muse and conjecture about theology. It was intended to be actually vigorously applied and lived out. And for that to happen, procrastination can longer be invited into the storyline of our lives.
This message was given at the Church at Ellerslie on April 13, 2025
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Why Not Today?
4:12 Root System of Action
7:54 Those Things
11:36 Procrastination
16:40 The Invitation to the Feast
21:37 The 5 Deterrents
24:40 Deterrent #1 - Time
27:28 Deterrent #2 - Reputation
28:46 Deterrent #3 - Inconvenience
31:49 Deterrent #4 - Pain & Difficulty
33:40 Deterrent #5 - Lack of Drive or Desire
35:49 Fact, Faith, Experience
43:00 Doing - Essence of Genuine Faith
47:11 Procrastination
50:40 The Questions of the Gambler
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Procrastination is not a friend of functional Christianity. Rather, it’s a sworn enemy. Everything that makes Christianity work is based on “doing” and “action”. God goes out of his way to explain to us in the Scriptures that we can’t be tares, we must be wheat. We can’t be virgins without oil, we must be virgins with oil. And we mustn’t be goats that doddle, but sheep that do. Christianity was never meant to be a mere mental game where we sit around and muse and conjecture about theology. It was intended to be actually vigorously applied and lived out. And for that to happen, procrastination can longer be invited into the storyline of our lives.
This message was given at the Church at Ellerslie on April 13, 2025
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Why Not Today?
4:12 Root System of Action
7:54 Those Things
11:36 Procrastination
16:40 The Invitation to the Feast
21:37 The 5 Deterrents
24:40 Deterrent #1 - Time
27:28 Deterrent #2 - Reputation
28:46 Deterrent #3 - Inconvenience
31:49 Deterrent #4 - Pain & Difficulty
33:40 Deterrent #5 - Lack of Drive or Desire
35:49 Fact, Faith, Experience
43:00 Doing - Essence of Genuine Faith
47:11 Procrastination
50:40 The Questions of the Gambler
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» Subscribe to the Eric Ludy Sermon Podcast on your favorite podcast app to get the sermon audios delivered to your device each week: https://eric-ludy-sermons.captivate.fm/listen
» Take these messages deeper and be discipled in person by Eric, Leslie, Nathan, and the team at Ellerslie in one of our upcoming discipleship programs – learn more at: ellerslie.com/be-discipled
» Receive our free “Five Keys to Walking Through Difficulty” PDF by going to: ellerslie.com/subscribe
» If you have been blessed by Ellerslie, consider partnering with the ministry by donating at: ellerslie.com/donate
» Discover more resources, books, and sermons from Eric Ludy by going to: ellerslie.com/about-eric-ludy
