Senior Living

If you were raised in the South, no doubt you know about church revivals.

They were traditionally held in August.

The language used to describe them is filled with many phrases that non-churched people today may not understand.

The old-time revivals were an intense, well-planned week of nightly meetings to stir the congregants to a deeper level of personal devotion and bring lost souls into the Kingdom of God.

“Cottage prayer meetings” usually preceded the revival, and volunteers signed up to “pack-a-pew” each night.

Revivals were usually led by guest full-time evangelists instead of the local pastors.

They could step on toes with no-holds-barred, conscious-pricking preaching that local preachers couldn’t get away with.

The most wicked sinners were prayed for in hopes that their souls could be saved from eternal damnation.

Believers who had become “back-sliders” were invited to re-dedicate their lives to the Lord.

Revivals were a kind-of house cleaning for the church to re-focus, re-new, and realign the priorities of what it was supposed to be doing.

Revivals such as this have all but disappeared in the modern church. Granted, examples of such revivals cannot be found in the Bible. Instead, we have Biblical records of the Spirit of God moving among people, often as the result of powerful preaching of the Word of God (see Acts 2).

This nation needs a true

revival.

Remember when President George H.W. Bush

called for a kinder, gentler

nation? That sounded like

a noble aspiration. But

more than that, we need

a massive revival awakening that will change

hearts and draw people

back to godliness and Biblical morality.

Our nation needs to go beyond being kinder and gentler.

As a nation under God, we need repentance from sin to make us purer and cleaner.

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