Something Different

Need a Break?

Are you one who follows a familiar trail all, or at least, most of the time? Are you one who likes the familiar prayer and hymn sandwich so familiar to many churches today? Are you one who likes familiar patterns of worship, of preaching, of after meeting coffee and chatter? If you answer yes or probably to these, then revival will not suit you at all.

Jesus did not come to keep the established church of His day a happy church. Jesus came for the sinners – the worse the better. Jesus came to save sinners, not just to save the smugly sanctified. Jesus came to bring freedom to captives, not to pour scorn and contempt upon them. Jesus came to heal the blind, the deaf, and the sick, not to send them to the most expensive specialist in town. Jesus came to feed the hungry, to give water to the thirsty, and to look after the widows and children – not to shun them as outcasts and undesirables.

Revival brings all these ‘messy’ people back to Jesus and therefore back into the churches. Revival brings people who would not have wanted to be seen dead in a church – before they met Jesus. Revival brings people whom the church didn’t want in their cosy little circle – until Holy Spirit moves upon them with a great outpouring of Grace.

Revival is messy. Revival breaks up our cosy routines – it shreds our schedules – it destroys our plans. Lunch can no longer be counted upon to start at 2.00pm – because the meeting will still be going on. Prayer becomes a 24 hour, several days a week, if not seven days a week, activity. Revival brings a kind of “glorious chaos and joy” to everything.

Revival is a break from all the usual rules governing any church. If you want revival, you and your church need to take a break – a Holy Spirit led break. Let Him in and let Him loose. You will never regret doing so and neither will those saved when revival hits your church and town.

OK – Need a break ???