“Revival, above everything else, is a glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is the restoration of him to the centre of the life of the Church.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
My friend and licensed therapist Jim Cress often says that if regaining trust is possible that it will always require, "time + believable behavior." I think this concept is also true of how we evaluate and view the validity of "revival." As I'm writing this post there has been what many Christians have called "revival" taking place at Asbury College. A chapel service that started on a Wednesday morning has gone on for 70+ hours. Pictures taken from the college chapel show a room that is standing room only with people gathered across cultural, ethnic, and social classes coming together to worship, pray, and seek the Lord. From the outside, this truly does look like a revival.
I’ll be honest, my natural tendency when it comes to these things is a bit of skepticism. I long for a type of holiness that is mar…
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