Throughout the Bible, sinful humanity is described as dead in sin, or asleep. The Spirit of God moves upon us to awaken us, to raise us from the dead. Those who have been awakened by the Spirit of God become intensely self-aware of our own sinfulness, and the oppression of sin throughout human society. In Pentecostalism, and its revivalistic forebears, we speak of awakenings – seasons of divine intervention in which a lukewarm church is revived. As we try to navigate through the present postmodern fog many of us are yearning for another awakening.
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