Sustaining revival

December 8, 2006 by John Baw

<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="john baw" name="AUTHOR" /><meta content="20061203;22111700" name="CREATED" /><meta content="john baw" name="CHANGEDBY" /><meta content="20061203;22250300" name="CHANGED" /></p> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">I had a conversation with a christian friend recently who told me that his network of churches in the UK had ‘looked into’ revival and one of their theologians had prepared a discussion paper after studying different churches that had experienced revival in the past. His take on this was that revival was not a sustainable realirty in the Church.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Want my take on this? For me NOT having revival is an unsustauinable reality in Church!</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This got me speaking in church about revival and touched on principles for encouraging revival, receiving revival and sustaining revival. My teaching notes can be found on our church website <a href="http://www.livingwatersgib.com/downloads/20061103.pdf">here.</a> These are my raw notes and there is no guarantee that they are either coherent, or that this is what I actually end up preaching!</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Revival" rel="tag"> Revival</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Teaching" rel="tag"> Teaching</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sustainability" rel="tag"> Sustainability </a></p> </div> </div> <p class="poweredbyperformancing">powered by <a href="http://performancing.com/firefox">performancing firefox</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="postmeta"> <p>Filed Under <a href="http://www.wildoxgib.com/category/ibelieve/teaching" title="View all posts in Teaching" rel="category tag">Teaching</a><br />Tagged: </p> </div>  </div> <div class="adsense">  <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" 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