TPDL Day #15 - Formed for God's Family

I was just reading today in the Christian Index an article about baptisms. The Georgia Baptist Convention has set a goal to conduct 50,000 baptisms in 2005. This goal would be an increase of 15,518 from the number of baptisms reported in 2002.

There are many Baptist leaders who are praying for a statewide and national revival in 2005. “There is a consensus among pastors that complacency dominates the atmosphere on most churches. The need for revival has never been greater, and God may be ready to work a miracle among His people in Georgia,” Steve Hale, president of the Conference of Georgia Baptist Evangelists or COGBE, stated in a recent interview.

The article states that revival is all about bringing people back to their first love. Revival is for the church, not for unbelievers. Once believers are revived they naturally begin sharing their faith and the harvest begins.

There has been a national calming of the passion for revival in the past decades. Many churches are preoccupied with the ‘good things’ that evangelism falls between the cracks. However, there is a firm belief that we could experience the greatest awakening in Georgia’s history if we were to get serious with God in the coming months.

Do you need to have revival in your life?