I have many missionary friends who are faithful ministers of the gospel. Each morning, they rise to spend time in devoted study of the Bible and prayer and then spend the rest of the day urging their national friends to consider Christ. They creatively turn conversations to the gospel. They patiently consider each person’s needs and life situation. They faithfully pray for their friends and others in their cities to be raised from death to life.
These missionary friends hear stories of missionaries in other places who have seen many people rapidly come to Christ. They know that such events are possible. After all, the book of Acts tells of 3,000 coming into God’s kingdom in a day, and another 2,000 within a short period. Church history recounts awakenings and revivals where many souls were saved under the preaching of God’s Word. These accounts burn in my friends’ hearts: they would love to see such revival among the people they serve.
But revival—“a sovereign and large giving of the Spirit of God, resulting in the addition of many to the kingdom of God”—shouldn’t be confused with revivalism.
WHAT IS REVIVALISM?
Revivalism is the practice of using methods to pursue or
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