Pastor John,
I found the video of the Asbury revival interesting. The things this man said about a vision he had in 2001 stood out. In the video, this man, Dutch Sheets, talks about a vision he had in September 2001 right after 9/11 while speaking at a conference. Recently, on 1/25/23, he was interviewed and retold that experience/vision he had in 2001. Two weeks later, on 2/8/23, the Asbury event started.
In the vision from 2001 Dutch Sheets saw a revival of young people that “wanted more of him, and they really didn’t want religion, they didn’t want our forms, they didn’t want somebody to preach at them. They wanted to know about Jesus. They wanted a relationship with him, but didn’t want religious form. They wanted something different.”
As a result of what he was seeing in the vision he began to say, “How are we going to steward this?…. How do we teach them without trying to put them in a form and in a mold that they know nothing about and don’t want? How do we teach them relationship without religion? … “This is going to be incredibly difficult to steward.” Then he said, “We are going to need to be ready to take them into His presence and allow holy Spirit to teach them and allow holy Spirit to shape them, to show them what he wants and who he is.”
That man told of a vision he had over 20 years ago. I don’t know if it has anything to do with what is happening now, but either way, those tentacles of Christianity (as Gary called them) are always waiting to strangle out anything that Jesus does. Jesus help them!
Here is the video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MoYSDjEkw
Amy French