Three Reasons We Need Revival And Awakening—They May Not Be What You Expect

This small November piece will cover three points on why our society needs an awakening. A revival needs to happen within the American churches. It is my hope that if you see any of the pressures of the culture, as discussed in this article, pushing in on you, that you will be made aware of it and continue to fight the good fight of faith.

1.We need a moral reset as a nation.

If you examine the landscape of our culture, you will see the rise of subjective opinion. What is the old saying? (“Whatever floats your boat, do it.”) Or to use the words of captain obvious, “you do you.” This is where we are at as a nation. For us to either continue to lie to ourselves or stick our head in the sand like an ostrich, hoping that this will all go away like a bad dream is not helpful.

What is the answer? One of the ways we can turn the tide on a culture going down the subjective drain is to go out and be a biblical witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is in the Gospel that man’s greatest need is met. The answer to why there is corruption, stealing, rioting, sex trafficking, etc. is all found in the explanation of the Gospel.

We were out witnessing on the University of South Carolina handing out the Man Tract. (You can give a donation for our tract at the previous link.) When we hand out the man tract, we ask one follow up question, “what do you think is wrong with mankind?” Then we just listen. People begin to speak to us without any hesitation about all the problems with mankind; however, none really have any solution to the problem.

We took the time while on campus to show them how the problems that they bring up are because of sin, and then we show them how they personally have sinned against God. Then, we unveil the glorious Gospel. Without the Gospel making us examine our condition, man is left with a drifting moral compass.

Our culture, without the Gospel and the truth of Scripture, is left to their gods and autonomous narcists tendencies. Without the objective truth of God’s Word, we are left to the power of popular opinion and the lust of our own desires. This is slowly destroying our society.

2.We need to understand what reality is—God. (Humans don’t determine reality.)

People are continually confusing subjective opinions with the objective truth that God reveals for us to live by. Where there are pockets in our culture where society is growing and flourishing, people are instinctively living out these morals. Whenever a person is honest and works hard at a job, proving their faithfulness to their work task, they are exemplifying the unchanging attributes of God. Whenever they don’t steal and are honest, they are bearing witness that they are made in God’s image.

This is God’s reality that allows life to flourish wherever these morals and others like them—found in the Bible—are applied to everyday living. He gives us his good earth to dwell on, to use, and it testifies to His goodness. It is not only that His word and earth testify to His goodness, it is also the heavens that do the same.

We need an awakening and a revival so people can come back to reality. What do I mean? Reality starts and ends with God. The further people get away from God, the further they drift from reality, and it is our job to show the anchor for every person on planet earth. Jesus!

If no one calls them on living a lie in the false reality of their broken worldview, they will continue to live comfortably in either (1) their sin until it causes a wake of unrepairable damage, or (2) they end up in hell for eternity. Nevertheless, there is one more vital reason that I want to talk about in this article that shows we need revival and awakening that is catching a lot of us by surprise.

3.We need to be reminded of what it means to be human, which is getting confused because of social media and A.I.

Social media is not real life. Participating with Artificial intelligence on any level is not real life. However, many people are beginning to step over the threshold and are confusing reality with simulation because of the amount of time they are spending on these platforms.

What it means to be truly human is to be relational creatures. First in a right relationship with our creator, secondly, in the right relationship with the people, we live with and around.

People are spending more time on Social Media which is an artificial substitute for genuine relationships. People are living their lives on Social Media and it is a façade. It is the airbrushed version of what they want the world to see. Only a revival and an awakening are going to break the stronghold that Social Media and Artificial Intelligence has on our society.

I want to share a little more about A.I.

A.I. is tinkering with how we shop, interact with the information, and information that bombard our daily online consumption. We are becoming the product for A.I. to learn and pull us further away from personal interaction with people. Online interaction is not truly interacting with other humans the way God intended us to interact. COVID-19 has added to this pandemic of anemic human interaction. It is further separating us from each other, and in return, separating us in our relationships with human beings that we need to be witnessing to and doing life with.

However, a revival and awakening would show what really matters: our relationship with God, and then our relationships with each other. Pray that God would be gracious and allow a revival to break out in the churches of this nation and awakening to happen in the culture because when it does, this nation’s moral compass will begin to shift back toward objective truth.

The true reality of God will come into focus again, and people will begin to see how Social Media and Artificial Intelligence are tinkering and affecting the way we look at the most valued thing apart from a right relationship with God: our relationship with other human beings.

Until next time, go out and proclaim the Gospel to see a life transformed.