The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Great Awakening

Linda,

You asked what can one do to bring about revival, besides prayer. Well, first of all, prayer isn't inefficacious! But as you well know, it isn't as many think, i.e., a prybar to get God to do what the individual thinks is right, good, best, etc.

But, IMHO, you are not going to see revival before there is "Reformation"! It is through the pure preaching of the Gospel that the Spirit calls sinners to repentance and faith in the Lord Christ. Unless right doctrine is embraced, preached and taught in the churches, revival simply isn't going to come. Thus, it may be that those who labor in the Word as ordained to office should be the focus of both prayer and dialog. The old saying is that a congregation can never rise to a point any higher than the man who leads them has some merit to it. When men of God boldly proclaim the truths of the Scriptures, those who have been given ears to hear will perceive the call of their Saviour and come most assuredly. When the call is obscured, then so is the hearing. It is not that "right doctrine" equals salvation; no, no. But it is THROUGH right doctrine that God is made known, sins are exposed, etc. As the apostle Paul exclaimed,

Romans 1:16-17 (ASV) "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith."

In His Grace,