"What Made Me Come Through Those Doors?"

While I am solidly against most of the Thrid Wave "stuff," one of their "prophets" at times does make sense. His name is Bill Yount and something he wrote recently really struck me as true. In fact, I've been thinking about the same thing recently so perhaps God is talking to many of us about it. With apologies to Mr. Yount, I plaziarized his title for my blog post today.

To explain the title, and what I hear God saying to us about our prayer task, here is a snippet of his article,


At the end of the service we were praying for healing for people at the altar. A man came staggering up the aisle to the altar and began to tell us something. He said, "Ten minutes ago I was in a bar, drinking. I left that bar and was walking down the highway past your church. Something told me to walk over to your building. I have been watching you all through the windows. Tell me something, what made me come through those doors?" He kept repeating his question over and over to us. "What made me come through those doors? What was it?"


This is exactly what happened in the Welsh revival beginning in 1904 in the town of Lougher in the Moriah Chapel. The hard-living miners would be streaming down the street having come out of the bars and houses of prostitution. They would be passing Mount Moriah Church and suddenly had this conviction of sin. Tears were trickling down their faces as they hurried into the church and gave their lives to Christ. Conservative estimates are tht more than 150,000 people came to Christ in that church in the first 6 months. This had the effect of changing the nation. THe bars and houses of prostitution were almsot empty. People were in church every night for hours.

I am believing more and more that this is exactly what has to happen short of a horrbile national catastrophe afecting almost everyone (or maybe both wil happen). Our cutsey, ineffective programs and methods have utterly failed the church, the society and the country (USA, as well as other western countries).

OK...troops....you all got your prayer orders. Hmmmm....I think that includes me too.