When my car battery is "dead," this means that it lacks power, or does not have enough power to start the vehicle. What do we do? Do we say "well, it is dead so I can do nothing to bring the battery back to life"? No, we rather give the battery a "jump start." Some power outside of the battery must revive it. The gospel message is that means for jump starting a dead heart.
We might also use the metaphor of a patient whose heart has stopped. So, medical saviors attempt to jump start the heart by electrical shock. Again, the gospel message is like a defibrillator.
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