No Formula for Revival — Charles Price

The Church Cannot Work Without God

One of the things that concerns me about the Church of Jesus Christ generally is that we keep on trying to Make the church work without God. We keep coming up with new patterns and programs which if we Repeat them. We'll get some kind of success, but which no longer is not necessarily involved in.

The Welsh Revival and the Limits of Replication

I Think it's been true in the history of the church. It's It's why revivals never last very long. 1904 which is what we're celebrating the centenary of this church 904. 904 is also the period of the Welsh revival when in 10 weeks a hundred-thousand people came to Christ and Then beyond those 10 weeks there was still some vast consequences, but in those 10 weeks In particular there was a great outpouring and they used to sing certain song.

When Revival Songs Become a Formula

And so other people thought that's obviously the secret. Let's sing the songs they sing in the Welsh revival and Eventually, in fact the Welsh revival, I think it's fair to say Dwindled in the song they stopped preaching and just sang these certain songs where God had certainly moved through these songs and blessed through these songs.

“Here Is Love” and the Welsh Revival

One of the ones have been resurrected in the last 10 -15 years here is love vast as an ocean. As ago it's in this book by the way, it's a great song here is love fast as an ocean. Whatever some you know it don't look for it.

Transplanting Revival to the Kesa Convention

Sorry, but that came out of a Welsh revival one of the key songs in the Welsh revival I Wrote the history jointly wrote the history of the Kesa Convention a couple of years ago. Or back in the year 2000 to celebrate the hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the Kesa Convention.

Which of course has had a big impact Through its life in the past and in 1905 300 people came from Wales to transfer the Welsh revival to the Kesa Convention and What they did when the main meetings were over was to stay back and sing some of these songs and they would sing them Late into the night.

Reducing God’s Work to a Transplantable Method

People stay to be part of this thing, but they wondered why it didn't happen. Because what they're done. You see they're taken what God had done reduce it to a formula and Try to transplant it, but now without God.

Revival Manuals Cannot Replace God’s Presence

You know you hear things happening all across the world and what we tend to do these days is get our Christian journalists now Christian Photographers we put them on a jet plane fly them to the scene and the revival and they take their pictures and write their stories.

And reduce it to some formula bring it back and say let's have the formula here. And they produce a manual go around the country having seminars and how to have revival and they wonder why doesn't work.

Jesus Cannot Be Confined to a Program

Because you see we're detected from God. We've made it a program. One of the things that you find about Jesus in his Ministries you could never lock him into a program when you try to when you think I've got the pattern I know the technique.

I know the secret here. You try to lock Jesus into it. He'd break out of it.