We do need revival- in the Saints!

Just said good bye to Dirk Wood, my friend, great evangelist, and missionary to Cape Town, South Africa. He was with us over the weekend and preached for us in the services on Sunday. As always, our people loved him, his Christian street 'rap,' and his challenging us to personal revival.

He preached how the Word of God is the key to revival fires in one's heart and if you don't have fire your aren't reading the Word of God! He's right, there is so much to read and watch out there, that often times the Word is the last thing to be read if read at all!

Look at these stats from George Barna's assessment of the spiritual condition of 77 million American adults who are churched, born again Christians:

Bi-weekly attendance at services is generally the only time they worship God.

Eight out of every ten don't feel they've experienced a real connection with God during the worship experience.

Most will die without leading a single person to Christ; indeed the majority thinks it's not a significant responsibility of theirs.

While believing the Bible to be God's Word, they spend ten times more time watching television, listening to music, reading other books and conversing about personal hobbies and leisure interests.

When asked what constitutes success in life, most talked about professional achievement, family solidarity, physical accomplishments or financial success.

As a group they give about three percent of their income each year to God's work, and feel pleased with their "sacrificial" generosity.

Fewer than one out of ten tithes, although more than one third of them claim to.

Fewer than one out of six has a relationship with another believer through which Spiritual accountability is provided and growth achieved.

The vast majority relies on their church rather than their family to train their children to become Spiritually mature.

The likelihood of their marriages ending in divorce is the same as that of non-church goers, and few of them pray together except at meal times.

Most Christian parents don't believe they're doing a good job at facilitating the Spiritual development of their children, yet they're unwilling to pay the price to do it.

We desperately need help, Lord!