A Great Awakening Series

This woman didn’t know much but she knew she had to tell people about Jesus and she set off an amazing village-wide revival!

There is no one beyond the reach of God…not the Ninevites and not you or that friend, family member or neighbor.

We cannot save anyone - God does that. Salvation is from the Lord. But we are called to be faithful in sharing.

God used a friend named Aaron Teaford to help bring me to Christ.

God is doing amazing things right now.

Benny Hinn repented on national tv and said he would stop preaching the prosperity Gospel.

Kanye West says that, thanks to Chance the Rapper, conversations with him, he is now a born again Christian and his new musical project will be titled, “Jesus is King!”

I read this question this week and it has been on my mind ever since. If God answered your prayers for salvation that you prayed last week in one fell swoop today, how many people would be saved?

B. God loved Nineveh and He loves Chenoa!

God loved Nineveh. It was great in size, strength and sin but God’s love was for the city.

God loves Chenoa. He does. There are 1,800 people in Chenoa, the vast majority do not attend church at all. God loves them. He loves your neighbors. He loves the people who live in the big houses. He loves the people in the apartments.

The question for us is - do we as a church love Chenoa? God has planted us as a church in this community to be a lighthouse.

That’s what the FallFest is all about. It is an opportunity to simply reach out to our community and tell them that we are here for them. Take the flyer and walk across the street and invite your neighbors. Invite that guy at the gym that you’ve met.

It will be a very laid back time of hanging out of fun, food, and fellowship.

I’m very excited about this. I want to go so far as to say that if you don’t invite someone to come (you can’t make them come) then I’m going to tell you not to come. If you don’t invite someone, you don’t understand the purpose of the fall fest. It’s not for us. It’s for the community. ?

C. A Great Spiritual Awakening starts with us

There has been a group praying for revival in this community for over a decade.

We can’t make revival happen but history shows there are some things that happen before revivals. John Piper lists six:

Faithful preaching

Unceasing Prayer

Intentional Unity

Earnest Seeking of God “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” (Psalm 85:6) 

Pervasive Repentance - Sinners in the hands of an angry God. Read it straight from the page in a low monotone voice. People were on the floor on their faces crying out to God for mercy for their sins.

Effective Evangelism

I read recently of an Iranian Christian couple that moved to the states. After a few months, the wife come to the husband and said she thought that they should move back to Iran. What? It’s one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. She said, “The church here in America is sleepy. If we stay here, we will get sleepy. It’s already starting.” So they moved back to Iran so they could live out their faith with a white hot passion.