We often use and hear others us the term "Revival" meaning that there is a preacher coming in and preaching their guts out and reaching the lost. Revival is not reaching the unchurched, but it is reaching the backslidders if you will. Agree? What term or phrase should be used when we are trying to reach the lost or the unchurched? It is it easy to call it out reach, but does that cover it? Should it be A Gathering or something?
What say ye? Does it bother you for people to call it revival and all that is going on is hoping to reach new people? Maybe I am wrong if so someone set me straight.
NO I do not agree. Revival is a term used to get a sluggish church back on track and on fire for God. That means not just passionate, but burdoned and emboldened. It will include a renewed desire to pray and fast and read his word as well as reaching lost souls...so using a trickledown effect it does also include reading the lost and backslidden
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Lord, send a revival of the old time power
Lord, send a revival this midnight hour
Grant sinners repentance, grace to be baptized
Fill all with Thy Spirit, Lord, hear our cries.
I found a Gaither CD called Revival and this song was on there.
It was written by Joel Hemphill.
I’ve tried to get the words down correctly:
Chorus
Let’s have a revival from the pulpit to the pew
Let’s have a revival that starts with me and you
Then reaches out to a lost and hungry world to bring them in.
This is our joy, it’s our survival.
Let’s pray for a Holy Ghost arrival, let’s have a revival.
First Verse
Some times we’ve just gone through the motions, left the Spirit out
No power in our programs, no victory in our shout
But God will give us back our joy, let’s open up the Bible,
And lay aside formality, let’s have a revival
Repeat Chorus
Second Verse
I asked an old time preacher how revival came back there.
He said we always started down on our knees in prayer.
Just take those two books, the songbook and the Bible,
If you sing and preach God’s Word you’ll have revival.
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