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Transcript: Divine magnestism We see our people as a movement of God equipped to follow Jesus Monday to Sunday at home and in the workplace. We see God getting all the glory for all he enables us to become and do. If God can achieve such mighty things in times of revival, and if the spiritual labours of fifty years can be surpassed in so many days when the Spirit is poured out, why, he wondered, is the church today so satisfied with the results of normal evangelism? Why are we not more concerned that there should be another great revival? Why do we not pray for it day and night? Arthur Wallis Vision STUDY Apostolic preaching Supernatural manifestation Spontaneous Working Called by the Son Superabundant Blessing We see Christ Church blessing the whole community with space to meet God, make friends and live life better. Culture Spiritual Preparation We see children and young people living life in all its fullness and ministering to the whole church family. partners Church We see the world changed because we did small things well in partnership with all his children. We see Jesus being worshipped in spirit and in truth be people of all ages and all backgrounds. Acts 2 ? Ministers today seem more concerned with political power in society than spiritual fervency in the church, while pop culture contributes to the moral decay among the youth. City Teaching 2017 Suddenness STUDY We see local people confident that they are loved, accepted and valued by the living God, their Father. Divine Sovereignty ‘Wondrous Love, unbounded Mercy Vast as oceans in their flood; Jesus, Prince of Life, is dying— Life for us is in his blood! Oh! what heart can e’er forget him? Who can cease his praise to sing? Wondrous Love! for ever cherished, While the Heavens with music ring.’ Worship Questions? We cannot go to the Bible to see how the word “revival” is used, for it is not found there, although it contains many examples and types of revival and unfolds all of it’s principles Anointed Vessels Theology Survival Guide Divine simplicity plant study in and through prayer multiple translations Lead us not into temptation — into the temptation of an objectivistic consideration of God’s secondary and primary objectivity; a disinterested non-obedient consideration which holds back in a place which it thinks secure. Lead us not into the temptation of the false opinion that Thou art an object like other objects which we can undertake to know or not just as we wish, which we are free to know in this way, or even in that. Lead us not into the temptation of wanting to know Thee in Thy objectivity as if we were spectators, as if we could know, speak and hear about Thee in the slightest degree without at once taking part, without at once making that correspondence actual, without at once beginning with obedience. Dogmatics 2/1, § 25, sect. 1 (Barth's Prayer for theologians) We need to pray until our text comes freshly alive to us, the glory shines forth from it, the fire burns in our heart, and we begin to experience the explosive power of God's Word within us. John Stott - Between Two Worlds write a script get prayed for print it out GRAPHICS get feedback rewrite read aloud Neither does anyone else! Plan pray pray pray annotate Crux that than which no greater can be conceived Anselm of Canterbury