Why revivals end

You must be logged in to post a comment. Vaccine passports Indications that the government might extend social distancing measures beyond 21 June and introduce vaccine passports for churches are deeply worrying. While no…. Scripture truth hangs together; displace a part of it and you distort the whole.

Treating Genesis as allegory rather than history not only undermines…. More in this category: Comment. ET Comment — Why revivals stop October Why revivals stop Studies of revivals sometimes look at what causes revivals to stop.

But we can be sure that the God who starts revivals stops them as well. Beautiful Ecclesiastes 3 opens up a fresh angle on this question. Golden age But maybe there are clues within Scripture on that matter too. Tags: Comment. They bring in a speaker on a certain date. They announce it a few times and have no results. Then they trash it. Thanks Alan. We need more like an introduction. Just a new strategy.

Only a true Holy Ghost revival ever works. It is something that cannot be planned only prayed for. When the power of God falls it changes hearts and whole areas. It spreads to surrounding churches line a fire.

Look into the Great awakening, welsh revival, Azusa st. Brownsville, Toronto etc. Revival still works great if planned effectively. We make it focus on God not on us nor the church. Engage the congregation by talking and planning, well Announcement and great publicity.

Think about the word itself. One was formerly living, the other was formerly clay. We need to scrap old methods while still clinging to the unchanging message. The reason people do not come to the church in our culture is our God seems to be a wimp. No book of Acts power encounters. God always works with a remnant. Ground zero was with Saints.

The rest is history. If you get book of Acts miracles you will get the hungry to come in. They will change the world. Good word, but revival is NOT dead. Revival shaking — Dead church wakes up. Outpouring of the Spirit. Thanks for this! I think you might have missed the point of the article. Revival assumes there is something to revive.

Israel could have had a revival in the first century. The Gentiles could not have—there was nothing there to revive. Faith was new. It called for a new mode of evangelism. Thanks for the reply, Carey. I agree with you, and I apologize if I circumvented your point to spout a bit. I am in New England now, the veritable heart of secular humanism.

I am sure I am here for a reason. Prior to this, I spent two years in the buckle of the Bible Belt. Parable after parable taught that He wants a big family. That is the work we are called to do.

Anyway, thank you for your many thought provoking posts. God bless your ministry. If I can ever be of any help, please let me know! Most of them have regular attenders because they never changed with trends. Give me a store front and a great multi-media setup with a power trio based praise rock band, and I will show you a fellowship FULL of young people. In fact I attend one in Connecticut right now. It has lost its authentic quality. I agree with Leslea Fargnoli percent. I once attended a church in which the pastor thought the area youth would respond to a special service with live Christian rock musicians.

A crowd of young people came, enjoyed the cook-out, and listened and danced to the Christian rock music. They never came back for another service although it was geared for them. The denominations all talk about wanting young people, but be careful what you wish for. Great article. The Future is Now. He sent us to go and make disciples. Then, disciples will organize into gatherings churches.

Thanks for the insite. And for those who think being in a small rural Ontario community that these points do not matter, think again. I have faced, for the first time in my liufe not having a sunday morning childrens program. This is for two reasons. One Any younger couples with kids are flocking to the larger city churches down the highway where they have all the paid staff. And secondly, in my community, any kids we hope to reach are either visiting cusotdial parents or in hocky. We are being forced to change how and when we do kids ministry, which for now is thursday evenings.

The challenge now is to somehow engage the parents who presently will not even walk up the steps of the church. This is an eye opening and at the same time challenging article, Thatnks for posting. I agree with you Carey, that church leadership will and should no longer come from academia-based seminaries. It is from the living Body of Christ that the Spirit will awaken, enliven, and equip the saints Himself and raise up shepherds to lead the flock in His Way.

Praise Him! I gave my life as a Jewish man to Jesus at 43 years old and immediately started to read His Word voraciously. I preach five days a week to, and love and pray constantly with a large flock of poor people in the San Fernando Valley in California, and I count myself the most blessed pastor to have responsibility for many tender lambs and to have NO responsibility for a building just as Jesus Himself did.

I am blessed to be allowed to evangelize, raise up soldiers and encourage the saints, all in the context of the Will and Body of Christ. Let me know your thoughts about that Carey. Churches need good leaders. A recent blog post suggests that future pastors will be not coming from seminaries, though. That could be true. I know […]. If the children get picked up and they enjoy church, they will talk about it when they get home.

If the children want to keep going to church, make friends, attend church functions, pray for their parents, eventually the parents themselves will hopefully want to attend with their children. Carey, thanks for this piece! However, five years ago, I stepped out of a large, traditional church, and started a new congregation, and I constantly battle with my training and former thinking, and being visionary for our church in this new turf culture.

Keep up your good ministry, and stretching peeps like me! So true that our culture has shifted and is continuing to shift. You said it, the mission is bigger than all of us! And we are expecting to see loyalty in our people for this mission. Thank you so much for the confirmation! You have to make a huge effort to get those kids to church. I always was dubious of revivals; someone always seemed to get famous when there was a big one.

Revival is when people start caring and raise the priority of working together to do the work God that has laid out for us; all the while recognizing the infinitely immanent presence of God, which provides the fuel to keep going. The fundamentalist right has worn out the term, and extremism has run its course.

It would be interesting to see what a revival of the middle or left would look like. I happen to think moderation and unceremoniously practising the presence of God is pretty bleeding exciting. Brother Lawrence, had he an internet connection, would need not change a word of his famous essays. A revival whereby people start recognising God in their everyday lives, minute-by-minute, taking it down the pub, the office, even on the internet, living each moment with God, the God who loves all and whose only commandment was for us to do the same.

I think that would be very powerful, subversively discrete; Would we even know it was happening? A real revival from which a lasting movement would emerge from the rational church might be recognisable only in hindsight. Wow, did that last post convict you enough to delete the comment? But you can never delete the Word. God speed…. You actually never left another comment. Play nice my friend.

Thank you, Carey. We will still need the Church to equip, edify and encourage the Saints, but, even the teaching will become more outward, and less inward directed. I also find it interesting that the higher the theological degree, the more traditional the pastoral role. So it is a misstatement to say that God wills for revivals to come to an end. Satan will do all he can to divide the leaders in a congregation — especially during times of revival.

For a pastor and congregation hosting a revival, they can be sure Satan will do all he can to destroy them. Satan will tempt them to think that they were chosen to receive this revival blessing because of some inherent goodness of their own. The tendency is to remain within the walls of the church building during a revival. The revival came for a purpose, and it was to renew power for effective proclamation of the good news, and that takes place outside the building.

These come in many forms:. This type of phenomena have always accompanied revivals as God displayed His power.