Faithful then, faithful still

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Small Group Discussion Questions

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

James 1:17

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Psalm 100:4  

Blessings we experience today...

  • Religious liberty

  • Opportunities to worship openly

  • Material abundance in many places

  • Innovation and education

  • Humanitarian generosity

  • Worldwide spread of the gospel through American missionaries, churches, and ministries

  • Essential freedoms

Types of Freedom

1. Civil and Political Freedom

2. Personal and Moral Freedom

3. Economic and Financial Freedom

4. Freedom vs. License

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

Galatians 5:13

 

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.

1 Peter 2:16

Revival means the act of bringing something back to life, consciousness, or popularity. 

Spiritual Revival is a period of religious or spiritual reawakening charcterized by renewed faith, deep repentance, and a pasionate turning back to God.

"LORD, I have heard of Your fame: I stand in awe of Your deeds.  

Renew them in our day, in our time make the known; in wrath remember mercy."

Habakkuk 3:2

Revival History in the USA

  1. The First Great Awakening (1730–1740), Edwards/Whitefield - repentance new birth, scripture

  2. Methodism Revival (Late 1700 to early 1800), Asbury - pastoral care, church structures

  3. The Second Great Awakening (1820 - 1830), Finney - missions, Bible societies, Sunday schools

  4. Prayer Revival (1857–1858), Lanphier - simple prayer

  5. The Azusa Street Revival (1906–1915), Seymour - healings, baptism of Spirit, broke race and gender barriers

  6. Billy Graham Crusades (1947-2005), Graham - crusades, radio, television, print

  7. The Jesus Movement (1960s–1970s), Smith, Frisbee, Wimber - baptisms, new worship and church models

  8. Brownsville Revival (Pensacola Outpouring) (June 18,1995 to 2000), Kilpatrick, Hill, Cooley - fear of the Lord, personal holiness

One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts.

Psalm 145:4

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Mr. President: 

The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other -- our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many nos as yeses, is I think a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of  government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. 

In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. -- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men.  And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?          

- Benjamin Franklin, June 28, 1787

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