Have you ever been to a revival at your church? Did your church experience a revival? Does the church today even know what a revival looks like? I have to confess that I have never seen a true revival. I have experienced many revivals in my own person and heart but have never seen a church wide revival.

 

Most revivals are set up for failure right from the very beginning. We schedule a revival meeting to start on Sunday or Monday night and have a meeting at seven o’clock every night for five or six days and we hope and pray for revival, or do we? The reason our church’s never have true revival is because really we just come looking for a good time.

 

What even makes a church think that God will send a revival in five or six days of meetings. What passes for a revival today in most church’s is that all came and had a good time yelling amen, whether we truly believe what the Man of God has said or not. I have heard men preach about a topic and have heard the amens all around the congregation, and then I have seen the very same group of people ignore what they amend only weeks after the man left.

 

The problem in our church’s in America is we have traded a good feeling or excitement for repentance. We get emotional and have a good feeling and say to ourselves happily, we had church today. But I ask you, is that what it is all about? Is church for us to have an emotional time and then walk away feeling fulfilled?

 

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for having a good time in church and I am all for getting emotional. I often feel moved by the music and the testimonies, many times I tear up, sometimes I feel like I could leap out of my seat and get all pentecostal. Church should be about feelings and emotions. If you can’t have a good time in church then church isn’t meeting your needs.

 

But my complaint is this good time and emotional feelings, is all church ever seems to be for most people today. Very rarely do you ever see bitter tears of remorse at the alter anymore, especially on a church wide scale. Many people come expecting to have a bottle handed to them and many preachers today are happy to hand out the bottles.

 

“The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people. Oh! The horror of it. There is a strange thing that I have seen “under the sun,” even in the fundamentalist circles; it is preaching without unction.” quoted from Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill pg.18

 

Don’t quote men Leonard Ravenhill too many times my friend, you will be banished! The church does not want to hear that they are asleep today. Tell people that you don’t think the church is living up to its high calling too many times and see where it gets you. The church does not want to be challenged to grow or to even wake up. Many come to church with no intention of doing anything but sitting in the pew, nodding their head a few times and then go home to lunch.

 

Going to the alter for repentance never crosses the mind of many today, after all they made it to church so what do they have to repent of. Serving Christ in some capacity never gets considered. Church’s today have constant need of people to lead ministries, get involved and lend a hand. Have you ever heard of someone wanting to get involved at church and the church having to tell the person they have to wait for an opening? No you never have, most church’s are begging for their people to get involved and yet no one wants to volunteer.

 

If your a Christian reading this, my question to you is, are you involved in a ministry at your church? If not, when? Rom 12:6 Every believer in Christ has been given a gift by God to profit the body of Christ. Each one of us has a special and unique roll to play in the church. Most Christians never seek God to find out what gift He has given them. And so our church’s starve for spiritual food. Baby’s get burped while the meat of the word never gets placed on the table for those who want to grow. Gifts of the Spirit go unused and sinners are not drawn to the church, because after all its hard to tell the church from the world today.

 

The unsaved world looks at the church today as a joke. And why wouldn’t they. How are we different? Our teenagers are having sex, our married couples are getting divorced, our men and women are looking at pornography. Drinking, smoking, gambling, debt, these are all as common in the church as they are in the world we call lost.

 

We have thrown off the bonds of holiness, abandoned the word of God, refused to bend our knees to His wishes and commands. Church! Listen up! God wants to say something to you! 2 Cor 6:17. Church this is not a suggestion, it’s not a “do this if you feel like it,” this is the word of God for us, you and me! We are living in the days of the lukewarm church. Rev 3:15,16

 

We live in a time when church’s and people think they can ignore God and what He says. The time of God’s judgment is coming upon this earth and upon all ungodly men and women. Judgment will start at the House of God! It always has and always will.

 

Rev 3:19-22

(19) As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

(20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

(21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

(22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.