Comments on: Give Up Your Life

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:05:11 +0000

You are absolutely right about our postmodern age. I must apologize for requesting a definition of revival. I know what you meant by the term. I just wigged out for a second when I posted that because so many don’t understand it. In our relativistic world, we can oftentimes be saying the same things, but mean completely different things.

By: Ryan Riley

Ryan Riley — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:13:35 +0000

I suppose it has come to the point in our postmodern age where we must define our terms. I can completely understand why you would think of revival as being an emotional experience. However, I am speaking of a revival such as what occurred during the Great Awakenings and the Layman’s Prayer Revival. True worship occurred during those revivals (I’m sure there was some that was not, but the core of the events contained true worship), and that is the sort of revival I’m talking about.

We need to come together to worship and pray, seeking the Lord with all our might and counting ourselves as nothing next to the glory of his name. We need to lift up all of the people in our church, community, city, state, nation, and world in prayer and seek to teach and disciple them with God’s Word.

The book sounds great, too. I’m looking forward to it!

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:48:44 +0000

Ryan, I share your concern for our generation. However, I hesitate to say that we need a revival. For me, that carries a connotation of just an emotional experience. What we need is to gain a true and thorough understanding of what it is to be a disciple of Christ. To be a disciple of Christ is to no longer live for self, but to live for Him. Every aspect of our lives must be yielded to Him. We do not do this. We do not take up our crosses daily, as we are commanded to. This topic might well become my first “serious” blog. First, however, I have to finishing reading a book – “Love Your God with All Your Mind” by J.P. Moreland. This dude is awesome. I have heard him speak on this topic, which motivated me to buy the book. I’ll let you take a look at it when I am finished.

By: kristen

kristen — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:01:33 +0000

Ryan, you know I’m on board, and completely agree with what you have to say here. I wish I had more of a “war time mentality” like Piper often talks about (not to mention our Lord!).

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:15:46 +0000

Ryan this is awesome. I love the zeal and total devotion to the Lord this post encourages. I’m glad you mention how important our actions are and that they affect others…greatly!
May we be zealous and devoted to the Kingdom of God. But also may we daily put on the armor of God and be strong in Him. Ephesians 6:10-20..in fact this ties in perfectly with all you are saying.
My heart breaks when I see how the enemy has blinded dearly loved children of God and a lot of times we stand and watch..my prayer is that we will fight for the Kingdom in every way possible! Amen bro..this is awesome.

By: Ryan Riley

Ryan Riley — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:19:51 +0000

So you all know, this is still in draft form, but I wanted to go ahead and post it. I’m making some corrections, additions, and deletions on paper and will update it again later today.