HOW A REVIVED CHURCH MAKES JESUS NON-IGNORABLE (2 OF 13)
by Drew Hunter
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:6-10
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How a Revived Church Makes Jesus Non-Ignorable (2 of 13)
Series: Until He Comes
Drew Hunter
1 Thessalonians 1: 6-10
One of the greatest needs of our time is for our nation to be filled with revived churches.
Revival is what happens when the ordinary work of God is heightened.
Revival isn't about God doing something new and different from what he ordinarily does. It is about God doing more of what he usually does. The longing for revival is the longing for more.
A recent book on revivals through history ends this way: ''The revived church worships, prays, preaches, and evangelizes. Only they do so with a heightened sense of God and greater capacity to embody and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners'' (Hansen and Woodbridge, 186).
God is bringing people to himself through Christ and growing Christians. Revival is what happens when this happens more and more quickly than usual. It is what happens when the work that he may typically do over the course of a decade, he does in months.
Here's a definition of revival: Revival is when God presses the gospel deeper into Christians, and spreads it broader into their communities... really fast.
We can't plan this.
We can't force this to happen. We can't schedule it. We shouldn't call a meeting a ''revival service.'' Revival is something God does. And he does it when he wants to do it.
And when true revival comes, it gets our attention. It gets everyone's attention.
A transformation, a seriousness, and a joy comes to a place. Christians grow in spiritual depth, and churches grow in their reach in the community. People are deeply transformed.
Here's what Martin Lloyd Jones wrote in his book on revival from several decades ago: ''What is needed... is something that cannot be explained in human terms. What is needed is something that is so striking and so signal that it will arrest the attention of the whole world. That is revival'' (Llod Jones, ...
Series: Until He Comes
Drew Hunter
1 Thessalonians 1: 6-10
One of the greatest needs of our time is for our nation to be filled with revived churches.
Revival is what happens when the ordinary work of God is heightened.
Revival isn't about God doing something new and different from what he ordinarily does. It is about God doing more of what he usually does. The longing for revival is the longing for more.
A recent book on revivals through history ends this way: ''The revived church worships, prays, preaches, and evangelizes. Only they do so with a heightened sense of God and greater capacity to embody and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners'' (Hansen and Woodbridge, 186).
God is bringing people to himself through Christ and growing Christians. Revival is what happens when this happens more and more quickly than usual. It is what happens when the work that he may typically do over the course of a decade, he does in months.
Here's a definition of revival: Revival is when God presses the gospel deeper into Christians, and spreads it broader into their communities... really fast.
We can't plan this.
We can't force this to happen. We can't schedule it. We shouldn't call a meeting a ''revival service.'' Revival is something God does. And he does it when he wants to do it.
And when true revival comes, it gets our attention. It gets everyone's attention.
A transformation, a seriousness, and a joy comes to a place. Christians grow in spiritual depth, and churches grow in their reach in the community. People are deeply transformed.
Here's what Martin Lloyd Jones wrote in his book on revival from several decades ago: ''What is needed... is something that cannot be explained in human terms. What is needed is something that is so striking and so signal that it will arrest the attention of the whole world. That is revival'' (Llod Jones, ...
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