Sermon Tone Analysis

Series: “Preparing For Revival”

“What Does Revival Look Like?”

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INTRODUCTION:

A- Revival is more than a special series of services that the church announces and engages in.

1- It is more than great music and a guest preacher.

B- Revival is...

1- When Christians have their spiritual lives reignited by the power of the Holy Spirit of God!

2- The word revival means to be made to “live again!”

*In his book, The Secret of Christian Joy, Vance Havner writes:

“The greatest need of America is an old-fashioned, heaven-born, God-sent revival.

Throughout the history of the church, when clouds have hung lowest, when sin has seemed blackest and faith has been weakest, there have always been a faithful few who have not sold out to the devil nor bowed the knee to Baal, who have feared the Lord and thought upon his Name and have not forsaken the assembling of themselves together.

These have besought the Lord to revive his work in the midst of the years, and in the midst of the fears and tears, and in wrath to remember mercy.

God has always answered such supplication, filling each heart with his love, rekindling each soul with fire from above.”*

Many believers have never experienced a real, heaven-sent revival.

How are we to know how a revival - REAL REVIVAL - looks? gives us a good picture of “what a revival looks like.”

I- THERE IS A GENUINE UNITY IMPLANTED IN THE CHURCH ()

A- The church had prepared for the power of the Holy Spirit to fall upon them.

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B- They were now infused with a genuine unity from God.

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C- One of the marks of the church that has been reignited by God in real revival is a genuine unity.

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1- The term “together” appears over and over.

The term means to have a unity of mind and purpose.

II- THERE IS A GOD-GENERATED POWER IMPARTED TO THE CHURCH ().

A- The early church experienced a divine infusing of power to carry out the mission of Christ.

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III- THERE IS A GOSPEL-CENTERED MESSAGE PROCLAIMED BY THE CHURCH (, , ).

A- The power of God resulted in the message of God being proclaimed.

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B- The message proclaimed was centered upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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IV- THERE IS A GLORIOUS GROWTH EXEMPLIFIED TO AND IN THE CHURCH ().

A- A glorious growth of the church though the conversion and baptism of the lost.

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B- A glorious growth of the church through discipleship.

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C- A glorious growth of the church in fellowship.

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D- A glorious growth of the church in testimony within the community.

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CONCLUSION: