In my youth our
church held week-long revivals every year. Every night we would have a fill-a-pew
competition to see who could bring the most guests to pack the church. I would
not classify the sermons as the Hell-Fire sermons of yesteryear, but there was
an urgency to the message concerning the return of the Lord. The visiting pastor
and the elders made a concerted effort to contact visitors and share the plan
of salvation. We always had a number of decisions and baptisms. Revivals are no
longer a part of today’s church and the church has lost that particular type of
worship. The writer of Hebrews said, “Therefore, since we are receiving a
kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God
acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire” (Heb
12:28-29 NIV).
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