Denny Burk: Some Thoughts on the Asbury Revival...

February 11, 2023

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Perhaps you have heard or read by now reports about a revival taking place on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. A campus chapel service on Wednesday did not end at its appointed time but rather carried on for days on end. Students lingered and prayed and repented and worshipped. Students from surrounding universities and parents began arriving to experience what appears to have been a powerful move of the Spirit. Traffic jams accumulated in Wilmore as countless others came to Asbury to see what was happening.

I know that people of a more Calvinistic bent tend to be reflexively skeptical about such reports. After all, haven’t we moved beyond the shallow “revivalism” of the past and moved on to more stable forms of the faith?

I do hope that Christians have stable and established faith in Christ. But I do not feel cynical about these reports. On the contrary, I feel prayerful. Hopeful. In fact, I’ve gotten choked up more than once over the last couple days at the thought that a genuine outpouring of the Spirit could be happening among our Methodist brothers. So I’ve mainly been praying two things:

1. Oh, God. Let it be. Let your mercy pour down in genuine revival, and let these reports be true. And let it not end in Wilmore.

2. Pass me not, O gentle Savior. Hear my humble cry. While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry. While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.

Maybe you would be moved to pray this way as well. the rest

ASBURY REVIVAL 2023 in the news.

“The fame of revival spreads the flame of revival”

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