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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
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Plainfield
New Jersey
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Church
Jesus
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Revival

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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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