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I used these terms in order to highlight the often Man-centered thinking I've encountered over the years concerning revival. I wouldn't use this kind of language in framing my understanding of what revival is, either. But the quotation from John Rice used the phrase "faithful few": "We can have...

Hmmm... Is it a "price" that must be paid? These terms have a transactional flavor that I'm not sure I like. Or maybe, for me, it's that this language comes too close to the language of the cross: Jesus paid the price for us at Calvary which we were impotent to pay ourselves. Did the Prodigal...

What is this price, exactly? Is God's reviving of His compromised children so transactional? Why would He hold the spiritual revival of others hostage to the paying of the price by the faithful few?

If there's one thing the Israelites demonstrated as a nation, it was how weak, vacillating and temporary their "obedience" to God was. Thank God, He made a "new and living way" through Christ (He. 10:19-22) by which we could "put on Christ" (Ro. 13:14; Ga. 3:27), in him finding reconciliation to...

A bit over a year ago, I departed permanently a church where I'd been an Elder and Discipler for a decade. I wasn't happy to go, knowing I was leaving the church in a deteriorating condition that, if things didn't change, would only accelerate into full collapse. But, there was a deeply...

That's a great verse! Understood less and less by modern, North American Christians, however. I work in the Church primarily in the realm of discipleship and over the last three decades I've been doing so, the doctrines of the crucified life and walking in/by the Spirit - meat-and-potatoes...

I've been posting online for twenty years now, or so. Rarely, have I ever had to use the ignore button. But, you're right that the world is absurd and growing more so all the time. Personally, I think North America is not in just a post-Christian cultural condition but in a post-Reason one, too...

No. It's been so long, I can't recall what my "handle" was. Ah. On non-denom. sites the strife over these things is more confined and easier to ignore. I wonder if it'll be possible to avoid such strife here...

Hey. New guy to the site, here. I saw this thread and thought I'd weigh-in since I have a somewhat unique circumstance from which to speak on the matter of revival. In 1979, my grandfather's church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Ebenezer Baptist Church) was the epicenter of a big revival that, for...

Hey! I'm a newbie to BB - sort of. Many years ago I was a poster on this forum, so the site isn't entirely new to me. But I'm new to all of you, of course. Anyway, I was curious about the current "flavor" of the site and thought I'd lurk about a bit and perhaps offer a comment, here and there...