I am convinced that most Christian leaders do not really want revival because of its costs. Here is the great fear of most pastors and evangelists—speaking against someone’s sacrosanct error. Speak the truth, lose church membership or fail to grow attendance numerically. Expose the apostasy; expose a tithe-payer’s revered heretic. Identify a heresy; trample on a number of member’s beloved error. It is considered a quick path to being an ex-pastor or an uninvited evangelist. The only way to get and keep a crowd is to rail against neutral or benign errors. Of course, the old targets, alcohol, drugs, and adultery, are safe targets. However, those sins are not the causes of the apostasy.
What pastors will not do is expose the New Apostolic Reformation and other heretical entities. Very few of them will expose Hillsong Music as the epitome of apostasy. They will not identify Charisma Magazine as the nasty mixture of truth and error more corruptible than the serpent’s deceptive remarks to Eve in the Garden of Eden. They will not even expose individuals, such as Dr. Michael Brown, the chief apologist for the NAR and other deadly errors. Instead, they continue to lament and wail for revival while coddling the very factors that prevent it from arriving.
Furthermore, they attempt to make revival occur by holding conferences to restore some characteristic(s) of revival past. What they refuse to do is to understand that the goals of revival Christians were not to found a Denomination or be identified as a Pentecostal, a Methodist, or Wesleyan, et cetera, but to have as much as possible of what God offered them no matter what the costs. Continue reading
