I'm the one who suggested the blog so it fell on my shoulders to set it up. Over the next six weeks different people from the church will be adding information about the plans for the revival and what different events will be taking place.
To be honest I used to dread revivals as a kid. I didn't see the point. Now with a few more years under my belt and a few mission trips later I can really understand the two-fold purpose of revivals.
First, I need it in my own life. Even as a Christian, life can be tough. Career demands can seem to eat away at every available minute — whether I'm at work or at home. For others it's the demands of family and other interests. We get busy and too often we let our spiritual life slide into second place (or even further back).
Organized revivals can jar our attention back to God, often when we probably need it the most.
Secondly, revivals, like mission trips, help can the church to focus on what God has called us to do — to reach out and tell people about Him and what He can do in their lives if they will believe in Him, confess their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
Thus 2Brevived.com is not just for believers who need to refocus, but also for those still seeking salvation and new life as the apostle Paul explained in his letter to the believers in Rome:
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. (Romans 6:3-7 NIV)
It's a powerful concept Paul was writing about but I and others can testify that it is real both in the here and now, as well as eternally in life after death.
