A God-Sized Vision: Revival Stories that Stretch and Stir
The importance of spiritual revival and the necessity of conversion is being questioned in many evangelical and Reformed circles. I'm so glad that this book is appearing now, as a witness both to how God has worked in the church in the past and what he can do in the future. --Tim Keller, Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian ChurchMy dear friend John Woodbridge has hooked up with one of the ablest young minds in the Christian world to produce a timely reminder of the great moments in the history of our faith. We live in immensely serious times, and this book is a serious response that could truly inspire the church to do what it must do in our world today. May God use this to light a fire among his people. --Chuck Colson, Founder, Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian WorldviewThis book shows how God has moved in extraordinary ways throughout the history of the church. Genuine revival is not the result of marketing, technique, or entrepreneurship. As the stories here show, true revival comes as a "surprising work of God." When this happens, lives are changed, the church reformed, and the world renewed. How we need such a stirring today! --Timothy George, Dean of the School of Divinity, Beeson Divinity SchoolCollin Hansen and John Woodbridge write very much in the spirit of Jonathan Edwards in narrating revivals as a means of edifying and inspiring. A God-Sized Vision provides accessible and thoughtful accounts of classic American revivals from Edwards to Billy Graham and includes important stories of how in the twentieth-century revivals become some of the most remarkable developments worldwide. --George Marsden, Author, Jonathan Edwards: A Life and A Short Life of Jonathan EdwardsHow soon we forget! While we must never despise the ordinary means of grace that God customarily uses in the salvation of men and women, we must not forget those extraordinary times when in his mercy God has seemed to come down and pour out his Spirit in such transforming power that all of our expectations are reduced to rubble in the sheer glory of the transforming presence of God. Yes, many of these movements had downsides and charlatans connected with them--but fair-minded assessment must stand in grateful awe for these "visitations." May the renewed knowledge of what God has done in the past incite us to prayer that God would do it again.  --D. A. Carson, Professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School