Comments on: you say you want a revolution?

By: cozart

cozart — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:05:12 +0000

thanks for commenting natala. i knew you weren’t speaking for a movement or anything, it’s just that your words sparked something that i had wanted to write on for a long time. most of what was in these two posts was general speaking and i hope you didn’t take too much of it personally. but thanks for coming to my blog and reading and commenting. and thanks so much for sharing your story. it takes a lot of courage to make yourself that vulnerable and i greatly admire that. God bless.

By: natala

natala — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:13:49 +0000

oddly enough, i was just writing a story in my journey - i didn’t think that much about it.. and thought it was more personal than anything. and then it just got spread around - i don’t know if that’s good or not - i’m no pastor, or seminary student, and i’m rather new in my faith. i hope i wasn’t speaking for anyone or a movement. (i’m the last person they would want.)
i think people come to God in all sorts of ways - my way happens to be one way, and i’ve learned about Christ, and the saving Grace of Christ in a way that I think God knew would speak most into my life…. that’s just my opinion on it all
and I’m willing to be totally wrong on it. God continually shows me the places I need to change, that’s what is amazing about God - i’m not the same person I was 5 years ago,, and I hope I won’t be the same person in 10 years!
i totally agree with not a revolution - you hit it on the head - back to basics - it’s what i see 95% of the folks that i connect with are saying.
awesome.
thanks for the thoughts on it all…. and for linking..

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 04:39:09 +0000

Something that’s not a “mountaintop experience” with few long-lasting, life-changing effects, eh? Yeah, I hear you. I should have surrounded the uses of revival in the second paragraph above as “revival”.

By: cozart

cozart — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:17:59 +0000

ya, it would be revival of sorts. i guess i just meant something a little more permanent and longer lasting than a revival. every revival i’ve read about, whether in the Great Awakening or modern tent revivals, has just been a short lived experience. lots of initial fervor, but that fervor is gone in as little as a month and at most a year.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:50:52 +0000

I agree … but that I’d say that having the church, locally and institutionally, turning to love would be, in and of itself, revival.

And I’m amused that every revival I’ve ever attended was just a nice camp experience wrapped in the Gospel. I’m all, “And we don’t hear the Gospel weekly … why?” Of course, the churches I’ve attended that had those revivals weren’t hearing the Gospel regularly. Ay me.