Seeking a Revival Culture

Essays on Fortifying an Anemic Church

Baker

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781498274692
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

The great burden of Al Baker's life, that which drives him in Christian ministry more than anything else, is to see the church of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up and become mighty as she has been so often in past years. One thing has become very clear to Baker--the western church is in big trouble. Many pastors are terribly discouraged in their ministries. So are their people. Pastors have been told that they can model their ministries after whoever the latest and hottest preacher is, and all will be well with them, that they can expect exponential growth in their churches. With few exceptions, this has not been their experience. They have attended the seminars and read the latest books, but they have little to show for their efforts. As a pastor, Baker is heartbroken over the vastness of people's problems in today's church--everything from incest, child molestation, homosexuality, pornography, severe depression, suicide, divorce, wayward children, adultery, fornication, and more. The pastoral problems are epidemic. The Christian faith in American churches is woefully lacking. Church people are generally no different from those of the world. What are we to do? We need revival. We need a revival culture in the western church. We need, like Israel laboring under Egyptian bondage, to become intolerable of our circumstances. Israel cried out to the Lord when their slavery became intolerable to them. May God move us to divine discontent, to be dissatisfied with the status quo!

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Ichabod
• Confronting Our Neo-Pagan World
• What We Learned from Harvard’s Fall
• Election
• Predestination
• Abundance
• Mystery
• Foreordination
• Pre-hoping in Christ
• Knowledge
• Hope, Riches, Power
• Prepare
• Gaining a Biblical Perspective
• The Purpose of Suffering
• But God
• Listen to God
• The Love of God
• Proof of Power
• Christ’s Eternal Session
• All Jesus Has, You Have
• Resurrection Implications
• All You Need Is in Jesus
• You Are No Match for Your Enemies
• Forfeiting Your Freedom in Christ
• Denying Jesus
• Working Out Your Differences
• The Danger of Inverted Priorities
• Unity
• Prevailing Against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil
• The Prisoner of Christ Jesus
• Trifling with Jesus
• A Case for a Little Modern Day Chivalry
• Watch Where You Walk
• Don’t Blink
• Proof of Ownership
• A Sober Warning
• Celebrating the Indicatives, Ignoring the Imperatives
• Apostasy
• Extremism
• The Church Triumphant
• Preoccupation with the Temporal
• Praying with Confidence for Their Conversion
• New England Smugness
• The Spirit, Grace, and Chastisement
• Three Affirmations, Three Denials
• 1735
• The Pledge of the Holy Spirit
• Honor the Holy Ghost
• It’s Time for Revival Prayer
• What If?
• Courage
• What Would Revival Look Like in Your Town?
• Bibliography