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Unity is not conformity nor is it mimicry. The Holy Spirit unites Christians in their message of hope to the world, but He does this by empowering each of our unique testimonies to our culture.
This is a message I shared with the congregation at Country Chapel during their week-long revival meetings.
The Scriptures I reference in this message are—2 Chronicles 18:1-13; Romans 12:2; Mark 12:28-31; John 12:49-50; John 8:34-36; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18; Acts 15:1-35; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:1-11.
I have previously shared a whole series of messages about how the Holy Spirit empowers Christians for ministry:
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Craig T. Owens 
August 21, 2024 at 9:11 am
“[Revival] is the need of the day. But I fear that believers and churches are so weighed down with a variety of sins—a merely personal salvation, addiction to worldly diversions, failure to thrive on the Word of God, a self-centered approach to worship, a variety of compromises with the wrong-believing culture of our day, and so on—that we cannot even see the need for revival, renewal, and awakening. … There is never a time in which churches are not candidates for revival, for our experience of the life of faith is never as rich or full as it could be, and our churches are never as vibrant and missional as they should be. … For many churches the vision they pursue is that of perpetuating the status quo indefinitely into the future. But if we want God to come and revive us and stretch us beyond where we’ve ever been before, we must dare to think it possible, and then be bold to ask (Ephesians 3:20).” —T.M. Moore
“Such a revival of true religion meets the darkness and deadness which comes over the Church in times of decay. In such times the designs, desires, and doings of the Church are apt to become to a lamentable extent low set. Contented with things as they are, she stretches not forward to the things that are before. The Spirit seems gone; and even the things which remain are ready to die.” —John Bonar
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January 23, 2025 at 5:05 am
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