Revival Without Reformation: Why It Never Lasts | Episode 13

Revival without reformation.

I'm concerned that we've gotten addicted to moments that we celebrate powerful services, emotional encounters, and unforgettable conferences.

Just, oh, do you remember when that happened and this happened and this happened and this happened? But if the city does not change after the service...

Was it really revival? These are the questions we have to ask ourselves.

What are we calling revival? What are we actually asking for? Do we actually want what we're praying for? We want revival.

Or do you just want powerful services? Why? Because real revival will ruin your schedule.

Real revival, a real move of God, you cannot control.

You cannot get the glory for it.

You cannot manage when it happens, how long it happens, when it's going to end, when it's going to start, how it looks, what it sounds like, what the sermon is going to be like.

It will bring reformation not just to the city, but the reformation has to start in the church.

Revival was never meant to end at an altar.

It was always meant to invade culture.

This is a problem I see in so many different communities is we want revival, we want to move God, but we don't want to challenge culture.

We don't want to challenge culture.

We don't want to challenge what was.

We want to work.

We want everything else around.

We want to move God.

We're okay to maybe quietly challenge culture inside of the church.

But real revival will constantly challenge culture.

It will go against the status quo.

It will go against, well, this is how everyone else has done it.

This is how our grandfather did it.

This is how this person did it.

This is how the most successful business, the most successful church has done it.