Do it Again, Lord, PLEASE

[KingsGambit]

What the North Korean missionaries do is important and most of it needs to stay quiet for their own safety.

[Cow Poke]

North Korea. How dangerous is it for missionaries?

Probably second to ISIS controlled areas.

[Raphael]

North Korea much worse than China. Neither is terribly safe.

or Aceh (the Church I wet to when living in Hamilton (NZ) sponsored missionaries in Aceh and China, even an underground bible college in China)

[Jedidiah]

North Korea. How dangerous is it for missionaries?

North Korea much worse than China. Neither is terribly safe.

[Raphael]

North Korea. How dangerous is it for missionaries?

it will be right up there on the danger scale

[Truthseeker]

North Korea. How dangerous is it for missionaries?

[Cow Poke]

The worst I have ever experience has been superior glances. Worse may be coming.

CP, I suspect we are entering a "Post Christian" era, but just as has happened other places, God continues to work in the hearts of His people.

We are VERY encouraged from stories told to us by our missionaries in China and North Korea.

[Jedidiah]

I think when Christianity has fallen out of "favor", it's an opportunity for the church. It's easier to play church when Christianity is popular.

The worst I have ever experience has been superior glances. Worse may be coming.

CP, I suspect we are entering a "Post Christian" era, but just as has happened other places, God continues to work in the hearts of His people.

[KingsGambit]

I hear all kinds of gloom and doom about "Post Christian America", but I'm just dumb enough to believe that God is still in the Revival business.

I think when Christianity has fallen out of "favor", it's an opportunity for the church. It's easier to play church when Christianity is popular.

[Cow Poke]

Twice, I have witnessed honest-to-goodness Holy Ghost Revival in my life. I want to see it one last time before I die.

Seriously - I'm not talking about "Revival Meetings", or emotional roller coasters, but significant change in a whole congregation where God's people get right with God's people, and God's people get right with God. In both cases - one in 1971-72, and one in 1999-2001, a small group of people became interested in being the Church God wanted them to be, and a "growth" toward Revival began to swell, then "crest", then continue to last for two years or so. During those times, people came to Christ and were baptized, but the real mark of Revival was that many Christians fell in love with Jesus all over again, and got excited about serving Him.

In the first Revival, I was pretty much an observer, then a participant. In the second one, having experienced and been impacted by the first one, I was sharing this information and experience with the congregation, and a number of them said, "we want that, too". It took another two years, lots of prayer, preparation and even one "church discipline" where we "withdrew fellowship" from a troublesome woman - then the Holy Spirit moved in a might way, and Revival came. And lasted for over two years.

I hear all kinds of gloom and doom about "Post Christian America", but I'm just dumb enough to believe that God is still in the Revival business. The Church where I have been Pastoring the last almost three years seems to have the same yearning to be the Church God wants them to be. They are interested in giving, in Missions, in outreach, in "doing" rather than just hearing. It may take a few years, I don't know, but I am praying, "Lord, do it again, PLEASE".