Posted on 02/18/2023 8:01:16 AM PST by Jim W N
THE ASBURY REVIVAL at Asbury University going on right now
Methodist leader Francis Asbury (1745-1816)
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Pray for Scriptural UM churches that are leaving the denomination. The headquarters are making it difficult to meet the deadline.
The legalists and doctrinal critics are out doing their thing. It’s best just to ignore them.
I watched some clips (I went to seminary at Asbury), and I didn’t see or hear anything out of line at all. It all seemed orderly and modest.
It struck me as if it were a praise service at a Christian festival with people seen in some places praying for each other and their needs.
This bears earmarks of at least these 4 biblical principles:
1. Where sin abounded, there did grace much more abound;
2. When the enemy came in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord lifted up a standard against him;
3. “For the sake of my servant... I will not destroy it”;
4. God will always preserve a remnant.
As in Jesus’ and Paul the Apostle’s day, so today, the greatest enemy to the furtherance of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ is the established religious organizations.
In Jesus’ and Paul’s day, it was the Jews. Today the opposition is spearheaded by the established church organizations and helped along by ungodly secular organizations.
But God is greater than all and he will have a final end-time reawakening mainly among the Gentiles to save as many as possible from the wrath which is coming soon.
As in Jesus’ and Paul the Apostle’s day, so today, the greatest enemy to the furtherance of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ is the established religious organizations.
In Jesus’ and Paul’s day, it was the Jews. Today the opposition is spearheaded by the established church organizations and helped along by ungodly secular organizations.
But God is greater than all and he will have a final end-time reawakening mainly among the Gentiles to save as many as possible from the wrath which is coming soon.
Agree
An awesome event, as well as, an awesome sight to be seen.
Praying now for this request....
God indeed wants to revive HIS Church...
As my pastor often says, the CHURCH is not our building!
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That is exactly what I thought too... Open hearts, honest hearts, contrite hearts = the moving of GOD HIMSELF
AMEN!!!!!
Agreed.
Sounds more like Paul than Joshua.
What a shame that so many of this church bred in the great Wesleyan revivals have compromised with the spirit of this age. Prayers for all the God-fearing Methodists that want to follow the Bible!
The Jesus Movement was pretty much a doctrinal smorgasbord. But the key elements were love for Jesus and a zeal to spread the Gospel.
This looks like that. Let’s pray that this thing spreads.
Yes, even though the church can be as dead as a doornail...
Although we are living in the Laodicean church age, watch out for the tsunami of the Worldwide Grace Revolution which will trigger a worldwide incoming of souls (fulfilling Luke 14:23). This may be an inkling of what's to come.
God's merciful last sweep of souls to save from the wrath soon to come.
The town of Asbury Park, NJ was named in honor of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist Church in America. The town itself is a dump.
“... the greatest enemy to the furtherance of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ is the established religious organizations....”
One of the biggest tools in the enemy’s arsenal.....always has been, is and will be.
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