Revival is "A work of God by his Spirit through his word bringing the spiritually dead to living faith in Christ and renewing the inner life of Christians who have grown slack and sleepy."
J.I Packer
While its true that we need revival in America to bring spiritually dead people to a living faith in Jesus Christ, we really need a revival among the slack and sleepy Christians who fill Churches. A slacker is someone who avoids work or duty. To be slack is to be slow, idle, sluggish, to barely move, not busy or active, careless or negligent.
Are you a slacker? I am talking about the inner life being neglected or ignored. some Christians are so slack they can't even make it to a Church. They have thousands of excuses, "I cant' find a Church " either your not looking or your just plain lazy and you definitely don't take the bible seriously. I have been hurt at Church" who hasn't? Avoiding being part of a community of believers is not the path to healing. Many other slackers sit in Church services they don't worship, they don't read the bible, they don't serve, they really don't contribute anything. If your a slacker you need to be revived, you need to wake up concerning the state you're in. You need to learn about the grace of God and see afresh the wonder of the Savior and what he did for you on the cross. " An do this, knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed." Romans 13:11
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