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The Next Great Awakening
Another Great Awakening in the 1700's was the result of men like John Wesley in England, and Jonathan Edwards, Charles Wesley, George Whitfield, and many other godly and powerful preachers in America. This awakening to Jesus Christ and the Word of God had a great impact upon the further development of America as a Christian nation. One of the lasting effects of this Great Awakening was its message of the importance of holiness and sanctification in the Christian life.
In the 1800's, the Christian world experienced a Great Missionary Awakening. Faithful pioneer missionaries such as Hudson Taylor (China), William Carey (India), Adoniram Judson (Burma), Robert Moffet and David Livingstone (Africa), and thousands of other saints, known and unknown, courageously went and laid down their lives for the sake of reaching our world for Jesus Christ. Most of them died in the lands they were called to, often within months of arriving. Today, because of their obedience to the Word of God, we call ourselves “evangelicals,” have “mission budgets” in all our churches, and regularly give to reach our world for Jesus Christ.
In the 1900's, we had two Great Awakenings. The Fundamentalist movement and the Pentecostal movement. Although these awakenings have had strong differences with each other, both have contributed greatly to one another and to the Kingdom of God.
The Fundamentalist movement was a stand against the growing influence of liberalism
in some churches. It attempted to define for Christians the “fundamental” or “essential”
truths of Biblical Christianity. Some of these “fundamental” truths are: the inspired
inerrancy of the Bible; Jesus Christ is God; He was born of a virgin; He died to
atone for our sins on the cross; He rose from the dead; He will visibly return to
judge the living and the dead; belief in a literal Heaven and Hell, and a belief
in all the miracles of the Bible. The pro-
The Pentecostal and Charismatic movements were also “Great Awakenings.” This “Spirit-
Although all “Great Awakenings” have their differences, strengths, and weaknesses,
they all hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ and the Word of God. Each has strengthened
the Kingdom of God. In our present world, Pentecostal/Charismatic and Fundamental/Baptist
Christians are the principle targets of Anti-
The “Great Awakening” At Our Doorstep
Every Great Awakening follows obedience to the Word of God. We, especially pastors
and Christian leaders, should ask ourselves if there are important commands of our
Lord and the Apostles that we are neglecting in our “church doctrine,” particularly
here in America where the most prosperous Christians in our world live. Our Lord’s
most important command was that “we love one another.” Love is clearly defined by
our Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles. “This is how we know what love is: Jesus
Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother (fellow Christian) in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us
not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:16-
If another “Great Awakening” comes, it will not be based upon the “prosperity gospel,”
and it will not be a worked-
The elements of a Great Awakening are at our doors. Although it may seem far away, it is increasingly calling out to us. It is crying out in its pain and in its need for our love. It is our brethren. It is the Lord. It is the persecuted church.
Why are we the most prosperous Christians in the world? Do we think Christ died for us, and blessed Christians in America, so that we can, as the Apostle James warned, “hoard wealth in the last days...and fatten ourselves in the day of slaughter”? In these last days before the Lord’s return, while millions of Christians are being persecuted and are struggling to survive in the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Communist nations, are we to “dwell at ease in Zion”? Or are we here, as Queen Esther, “for such a time as this”?
I strongly believe that another “Great Awakening,” will require a complete re-
We must be willing to bravely break away from giving under the law (10% to the church), and have the faith to teach and practice giving from a New Testament perspective—“Whoever is not willing to give up all that he has cannot be my disciple.” In Christ, we own nothing and we have the right to nothing. Instead, we have a debt of love we can never repay. Our lives are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We are to live as Jesus would live, we are to be giving as Jesus would give— if indeed Christ lives in us. He gave His all, and He did not even have a place to rest His head.
In these last days, our love for our Lord Jesus Christ is going to be measured not
by our words, but by our “real” love for our fellow Christians. “When I was hungry
you gave me something to eat. When I was naked you clothed me….In as much as you
did it to the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." Matthew 25:31-
We can have a Great Awakening. It can impact all our churches as all past awakenings
have. A Great Awakening will require an honest re-
By our choice, we can have this “Awakening” in our personal lives, even if we do not see the Awakening in our churches. Yet, we still must try to awaken our churches to the call to help our brethren.
A “Great Awakening” would result in regular offerings in our churches to help our persecuted brethren. It would bring great hope and encouragement to our brethren living behind the “gates of hell.” It would result in millions coming to faith in Jesus Christ, especially in the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Communist world, as they see “the love of Christians for one another.” This obedience to the Word of God would result in a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the American churches. Our love for our Lord and for our brethren would not just be “theological" in “word and tongue.” Our love would be “real.”
We are living in the age of the martyrs, during an increasing “Christian Holocaust.” God help us if we do not help our brethren while we still can. Pray for this “Great Awakening.” If every Bible believing church in America were taking regular generous collections for the worldwide persecuted church, we would see the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Body of Christ since the first century. So simple, but will we do it?
“We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him." Acts 5:32
“I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.”
Jesus Christ—Matthew 25:31-
The consequence of neglecting our brethren is sobering.
Scriptures referenced: John 13:34-
Another Awakening “stands knocking at the door”. Rev. 3:20
Will we “hear His voice,” and open the door to our Lord Jesus Christ?
Previous awakenings began with The Reformation in the 1500’s, led by great saints including Martin Luther, John Wycliffe, John Hus, William Tyndale, and thousands of martyrs known to God. It brought attention to God’s Word, and spoke courageously against the religious Pharisees of their age. Its great truths based upon God’s Word were: “Christ alone, Scripture alone, faith and grace alone, and to the glory of God alone.” With the invention of the printing press, thousands began to obtain a copy of the Bible to read for themselves, and much of Europe was delivered from the tyranny of religion. The godly exercise of freedom, both religious and political, that we enjoy todayin America, and to some extent throughout the world, is the result of the Reformation, a Great Awakening.
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