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Topic: The Church of Yippie Yahoo - James Ryle
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Julie Gilbert
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Joined: 07/29/2007
Location: United States
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Posted: 01/10/2009 at 4:37pm
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
“Fake Messiahs and lying preachers are going to pop up everywhere.” (Matthew 24:24, The Message).
There is much talk these days about mighty revivals that are happening here and there, now and then -- yet nothing
seems to be changing really. In an objective analysis, these heated
moments are limited in scope, short-lived in notoriety, and superficial
in influence. It's the difference between a geyser and a river. Geysers
are fun and spectacular; but rivers sustain life.
These
outpourings come suddenly, and fade quietly away after enough people
have handled the wares. The roll call continues to grow -- Kansas City,
Toronto, Pensacola, Brownsville, and Lakeland. What city will the
circus visit next? Where next will the Church of Yippee Yahoo be
holding a meeting?
Is this revival? Really?
It
looks more like a super-sale where scores line up and wait for the
doors to open, and then rush the table to get the deal of a life-time,
and then make sure that everybody else knows every detail of how they
managed to do so. After a short sensational burst, the sales begins to
wane.
Latecomers
find the sales tables in a mess, with remnants scattered here and
there; odd items of unmatched clothes, and few ties that won't go with
any suit. Soon the whole affair is discarded, as the shoppers scour the
ads for the next Big Sale.
Is this the best we can do? Here and
there; now and then? What we need is a true and lasting move of God’s
Spirit across the land, un-sensational and without fanfare; one that
turns mens hearts in repentance and faith, and unleashes a work of
grace that repairs the breaches and heals the broken.
And when that happens we really will say, “Yippee Yahoo!”
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See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you. Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing
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