The Sunday morning service was sponsored by the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists prior to the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention's June 13-14 annual meeting. Nothing affects revival and awakening like holiness in the lives of his people.
Nothing affects the life of the local church, nothing like holiness.
Sin shuts down the activity of God. Sammy Tippit, an evangelist from Texas, in his message contrasted American Christians with those in other parts of the world. Tippit told of seeing the power of God at work in churches in Romania, citing, for example, a Baptist preacher's influence among those addressing a crowd of 200,000 at an anti-government rally in the 1980s. He also recounted stories of God working through Christians' prayers in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and the United Arab Emirates. What He's done there, He can do here.