Month: February 2023

2023 ASBURY AND 1930 OKE-OOYE, ILESA REVIVALS: POWER BEYOND THEOLOGICALLY DEAD INFLUENCE.

Revival raises the esteem of Jesus Christ. In Revival, God touches a community of faith just as God touches the heart of a single individual in personal renewal for broader societal awakening impacts. God brings revival among many Christians at the same time or region and in individual Christians’ lives as people get saved and renewed individually. Revival, as it was in the day of old through the power of the Holy Spirit, is breaking out while the church today is in schism, disobeying and debating rather than obeying God’s Word.  2023 Asbury revival remains God’s touch upon a...

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SALTLESS CHURCH UNDER THE BONDAGE OF THE WORLD: Lot’s example.

The missional purpose of Matthew’s word pictures in our Gospel reading is to encourage believers to change their world (Matt. 5). When the church is not changing the world through the power of the Holy Spirit, the world is changing the church. There is no neutral ground. When the church fails to contend for the faith from the rainfall of other ideas and ideologies, there will be a mixture, a dilution, and a redefinition of the Truth shaped by many other ideologies. You cannot be a true church without clear-cut loyalty to Jesus and what the Word of God...

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REVIVAL BEGINS AT HOME: OVERCOMING WARS AGAINST THE CHURCH.

In times like this, with the decline and wars against the Church, the words of a hymn by Baylus B McKinney offers hope and renewal. The hymn challenges and reminds Christians what we should strive and contend for. The hymn calls us to make the Bible a centerpiece of our home, daily life, and teachings. The lyrics remind us that true revival begins at home, “Home where the Lord is an honored guest.”  Jesus’ original purpose of coming on earth to build His Church was with a prayer that the gates of hell should not prevail against her. The...

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