#274 - Is this truly a Revival? part 1

UK church attendance is up 50% since 2018, with young men leading the surge — a fivefold jump from 4% to 21%. Lynn Green digs into the Bible Society's latest polling, shares a firsthand account of the 1740 Whitefield revival, and tells two recent stories from his own town — a street evangelism encounter and an unexpected healing — to ask whether this is genuine revival or just the beginning of an awakening. He closes with his theory on why hope is breaking through now, for a generation that's run out of it.

Chapters:

• 00:00 – Intro & framing the question
• 01:33 – The Bible Society poll: Bible sales up 87%
• 03:40 – Church attendance among 18–24 year olds
• 04:42 – The standout stat: young men up fivefold
• 06:01 – What "revival" actually means
• 06:28 – The Hebrides revival — Duncan Campbell's stories
• 08:21 – Book recommendation: the Great Awakening & the US Constitution
• 10:38 – Reading Nathan Cole's 1740 account of hearing Whitefield preach
• 18:02 – So, are we in revival? Not yet — an awakening
• 19:25 – Street evangelism story: the group of boys who committed to Jesus
• 21:12 – Backstory: the Kurdish-Iranian shopkeeper couple
• 24:14 – The phone message and the healed eye
• 26:25 – Why now? Looking back to the Jesus Movement of the 1960s–70s
• 30:38 – Comparing hopelessness then and now
• 34:52 – The gospel as a message of hope (John 10:10, Jeremiah 29:11)
• 35:24 – Why more young men than young women are returning
• 37:12 – Closing: looking ahead to teaching on the harvest
  
  

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