Do We Really Want to Pray for Revival? The Cost of a Great Commission Resurgence
Alvin Reid’s praying for revival. Based on his list, I’m praying too.
I am praying for revival, but a revival that will:
- change our paradigm from maintaining our institutions to advancing a movement, including a greater passion for propagating the gospel than fighting the culture wars;
- rescue us from consumerism and give us a passion to serve others;
- give us a greater love for unchanging truth than our personal preferences;
- take us from sectarian nit-picking to a hunger for biblical unity;
- focus our hearts less on impressing each other and more on loving the lost;
- make us continually love the Word while affirming creative ways to communicate it in our ever-changing world;
- add to our programmatic, attractional witness a missional lifestyle to penetrate the unchurched culture, meeting people where they live rather than in our institutions.
- challenge our youth not only to hate the things of this world, but to sacrifice all for the sake of the gospel;
- give us a hunger for the nations of the world and the great cities of the West;
- create a church planting movement the likes of which the world has never known.
