Hallo Hallo,
You'll be happy to know that I am thinking of your BI notes, and will sit down to write them soon...and I am rather confident of this seeing how I seem to be writing a lot of theology-related stuff recently for people, haha. I just sent a long email about the Trinity to my friend, and have started an email series for my Covenant Evangelical Free Church cell group about the similarities and differences between Catholics and Protestants. And I am loving it; although I really, really like what I'm studying now, I do find myself wishing I was studying theology instead, heh.
Anyway, before I put up your BI notes, I am going to embark on another project first. I am thinking of writing a post on revival - basically, it will about what revival really is from a New Testament perspective (and yes, by saying that, I Am saying that a lot of preachers give really inadequate definitions of it).
But as part of that project, I also do want to hear what questions you guys have about this thing that so many Pentecostal and Charismatic churches call "revival". I plan to dedicate a significant part of my post to a Q&A about the topic of revival; so please go ahead and use the comments link to post your questions. Fire away! Don't hold back. No question too big...or controversial :D Questions will be gathered one week from now and be answered promptly.
So, what's on your mind? :)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Message from Theologian In Residence
Posted by Chris at 9:16 AM
Labels: announcements, chris, holy spirit power, teaching
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Revival is all about God showing His kindness to people aka agape love, which leads to repentance. It is about passion, God was so passionate over the world that He sent Jesus to die for us. And His passion is being revealed through means like signs n wonders, prophetic insights, smiles, healings, people helping one another, deeper understanding and relationship with the Father, people get freed etc, that demostrates the goodness of God, aka the good news. It is about experiencing the Father's passion towards us, His goodness and kindness that actually leads to repentance, not the arguments of God, not the judgment of God, but it's the kindness of God... And it is this passion/love that transform culture and community... so that's how revival breaks out. Revival must flow out.
quoted from Kevin Dedmon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1TGHQQ0zc&NR=1
It seems only Hui Lian is reading the blog, haha...
Those are some decent observations about the experience of revival. People do experience all that when the phenomenon known as "revival" breaks out; but Dedmon, I think, still doesn't come anywhere near to defining what revival is, actually, because he doesn't tell us why the bringing together and holding together of these elements should be known as revival.
That "why", which gives a larger meaning to all these elements, is what we're aiming for here. Anyone else has thoughts as well?
Btw, random thought...3000 hits! Hahahahhahahaha!!! :P
Ok, lemme go read that post on revival. I will probably take 2-3 days to chew on it while recovering from my bronchus infection...
Short comment from me so that the rest can participate more. :) The word "revive" has this idea to make alive again (after all, that's why it's "re"-vive, to get someone awake again after they've passed out or went into a coma). So "revival" in my opinion is bringing the church alive again (of course, that assumes that the church at that point is largely dead and almost comatose). Maybe the closest human equivalent of it is a CPR?--where the target is in critical condition, almost dying, and fresh breath is breathed in to revive the dying. I also note that in the case of a CPR, the breath is an act of mercy, initiated not by the victim but by the other person who has compassion on the suffering of the victim. So is revival God's CPR for us?
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