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J. I. Packer, writing in God among us (“God in our environment”; Ann Arbor, 1987), pages 24-35, proposes that, among the variety of God’s means of action, five constants appear in biblical awakenings: 1- Awareness of God’s presence: “The first and fundamental characteristic of awakening is the feeling that God came in an astonishing way

Throughout its history, the church has tended to be considered extraordinary; for example, in medieval times, the church was an extraordinary place outside the world, the sacred separated from the unholy, the place of salvation, the possessor of the mysteries of heaven. The church contained extraordinary people: monks and nuns, priests and bishops and, above

What institutions on earth has God given authority? We read in the scriptures that God gave the state the power of the sword and the fathers the power of the stick. What about the church? We often end up seeing the church as a club, discuss the cons and cons, and judge whether we join

If you saw a garden covered in weeds, would you plant beautiful lilies in the middle?If you couldn’t hear the TV news because your radio was too loud, would you turn on the TV even more?It is for this and other reasons why Bobby Jamieson states that “Revitalizing churches is a biblical responsibility” [link to