This Issue Began with the quote from Rev. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “I am profoundly convinced that the greatest need in the world today is revival in the Church of God.… ” After this look at American awakenings, we might ask: Should Christians around the world today expect more awakenings? Could widespread awakening happen again in America? Will future awakenings be confined to the mission fields of developing nations—the Third World?
Has the West grown so hardened through humanism and our adoration of material things that we don’t care about, and can resist, the moving of the Holy Spirit? Has our faith grown cold?
Only God knows these things. However, we do hear of tremendous awakenings in Korea, where 10,000 people gather daily in Seoul to pray. We hear of movements toward Christianity in Indonesia and the southern half of Africa. Yet to many in the West, things look bleak. Have we had our day?
It is worth reflecting here that things must have looked equally bleak to Martin Luther 500 years ...
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