How to Know What Real Revival Looks Like
This is something I think we (being the Church proper) must read. After doing my Master's Thesis this past year about revival and its potential to sweep the world (based on historical study of the Great Awakening and comparative analysis), this is something we NEED to know. Anyone can cause emotional reactions and get a crowd to attend, in fact, the science of illiciting emotion is well documented (lighting, temperature, music, way of speaking, etc.). Because our emotionality cannot necessarily be trusted, these reminders that Ray Ortlund brings out from Jonathan Edwards are as timely today as they were in the mid-1700's. Read on and see where God might be taking us... How To Know What Real Revival Looks Like Ray Ortlund http://theresurgence.com/2011/03/30/how-to-know-what-real-revival-looks-like In 1972 I heard J. I. Packer lecture at my seminary. One simple sentence of his has echoed in my mind ever since: “Do not neglect the revival dimension in your ministry.” Re