Is God doing something new as we enter a new millennium?  Is He bringing change into the church today?  Yes!  He always is!

God is perfect and is eternally the same, but He is eternally up to something different in every generation (Mal. 3:6). His ways and methods stay fresh, and are forever fresh and unpredictably new. We can count on this.

It is through our personal relationship with Jesus Christ that God promotes change and freshness in our lives. Therefore, what He is doing in the church today may seem, in our limited perspective, to be new and creative, but to Him it is all part of His plan for our progression towards perfection in Christ Jesus. Hasn’t that been His plan all along? Take a look from a millennial perspective and you will find this “new” thing that is coming is not really new, but rather an embracing of radical, biblical Christianity.

Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13b‑14)

Today, most evangelical groups anticipate the next revival — a great movement of God to far exceed any revival in the past. Therefore, it stands to reason that the preparation preceding the next great revival will have to far exceed anything God has required in past revivals. After all, if our present level of faith, works, and understanding could accomplish God’s great commission, America and the world would have been won to Christ long ago.

God has revealed all in His Son, Jesus Christ! We just never seem to walk in all of that revelation at any given time. The good news is that the church now appears to be entering into a more complete and balanced insight of old revelation.

CATCHING THE VISION

I believe that the reformation, restoration movement that God started through Martin Luther in a.d. 1520 is an on‑going process. Nearly every flame of truth established by Christ and His apostles was dampened during the Dark Ages; but with the Reformation, those smoldering embers were rekindled.

Biblical truths are being restored one at a time, a recovery process that will continue until, and culminate at, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In fact, Martin Luther said (in reference to Rev. 19:7), “We can expect God to restore truths to His church until we become a Bride acceptable to the Bridegroom.” “An ever reforming church” was the cry of our reformation fathers.¹

Even so, Lord Jesus, reform and restore quickly!

Reform means to change the form, and this is about to happen.

In the Biblical sense of the word, reformation is a call to repent of disobedience to God’s word. It always involves getting rid of things that are not biblical. Restoration is a restoring of obedience to God’s will and a return to all things biblical.

Remember this! When we pray for God’s blessings, we are praying against the status quo and for God’s reformation/restoration process that incessantly conforms us to the image of Christ.

Now is the time to rid ourselves of unbiblical understandings of the Church based upon preference or past traditions. It is our duty to return to the mission of the New Testament church as stated by Jesus and recorded in Acts 1:8.

Have we Evangelicals reformed? Have we repented of our sin and error? Do we have that first century zeal, fire, and anointing? If not, we need a vision of recovery! It is no wonder that revival hasn’t started yet.

Spiritual vision originates with God and focuses on Christ. Such vision captures an understanding of Christ’s role in the Kingdom of God.

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