By Derek Rishmawy
So, I was talking to Tim Keller this week when the topic of sex came up…no, wait, that’s not right.
Let’s reframe that without me lying. I managed to snag a ticket to the Gospel Coalition’s 2013 National Conference this week and sit in on a breakout session on the subject of revival by Dr. Keller. He gave a brief recap of some of the material in his recent book Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City for those who hadn’t encountered it yet.
In a nutshell, his view of revival is that it is an intensification of the ordinary operation of the Holy Spirit in conviction, assurance, regeneration, and sanctification. He says, “You will see sleepy Christians waking up, nominal Christians being converted, and hard to reach cases being extraordinarily converted.” The marks of revival will include:
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The Gospel being recovered from legalism or antinomianism.
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True repentance, not just “emotional frothiness.”
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Anointed corporate worship.
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Some sort of church growth.
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I think that at the bottom of the tendency of public opinion to approve homosexual relations is the widespread practice of heterosexual fornication that has not been spoken against in the churches and which is actually encouraged in all popular media. I think the thought of young heterosexuals is: “if homosexual behavior is wrong, maybe other behaviors is wrong, including my own fornication. So, I won’t go there.”