Spiritual Warfare: Wake Up Waco | PS Sean Gleason | MC Waco

Pastor Sean Gleason preaches a direct call for the church in Waco to wake up from spiritual slumber, opening in Acts 9 with Saul’s encounter on the road to Damascus. He teaches on the spirit of stupor, a demonic numbness and apathy that blinds people to the truth of God, drawing from Romans 11, Isaiah 29, and 2 Corinthians 4 to explain how this spirit keeps believers comfortable, distracted, and disengaged from the things of God.

Pastor Sean shares personal stories, including a season of unexplainable exhaustion that the Lord revealed was tied to a spirit of slumber over the city, and challenges Mercy Culture to recover the hunger and grit he says has been replaced by comfort and domestication. He names four signs of being under a spirit of stupor, treating God’s presence as optional, knowing what is right without doing it, spiritual numbness, and apathy, and connects these patterns to the church at Sardis in Revelation 3 and the disciples falling asleep in the garden of Gethsemane in Luke 22.

He pushes the congregation to engage culture rather than retreat from it, pointing to examples like Baylor University and broader cultural compromise as evidence of a sleeping church, and calls for zeal, described through Jesus clearing the temple in John 2, as the only true antidote to apathy and tolerance. Pastor Sean closes by inviting the church into a 40 day Freedom Fast at the start of the new year and leads the congregation in prayer, asking God for a holy visitation that awakens hunger, repentance, and a renewed pursuit of His presence.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com