A God-Sized Vision: Revival Stories that Stretch and Stir
Written by Collin Hansen and John D. Woodbridge
Narrated by Adam Black
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Can God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recounts global examples of prior revivals, beginning with the Reformation and the Great Awakenings. It continues with the Welsh and Azusa Street revivals and those that occurred simultaneously in Asia, followed by the East Africa Revival of the 1930s. More recent revivals in North America that instigated parachurch or evangelistic ministries like those of Billy Graham and the revivals in China, particularly in Henan Province over the last forty years, give further evidence of church renewal. These stories enlarge our hearts, expand our minds, and empower our witness to the power of God at work in human history. Christians with a deep evangelistic commitment who realize that there is more to church growth than field-tested techniques will expand their vision by remembering God’s vision, as it has been revealed throughout history. Hansen and Woodbridge mine these stories of renewal to suggest how to get ready for revival today.
Collin Hansen
Collin Hansen serves as vice president of content and editor in chief for The Gospel Coalition. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and edited many books. He earned an MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and an undergraduate degree in journalism and history from Northwestern University. He is an adjunct professor of apologetics and co-chair of the advisory board at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is an informative (not sensationalized) look at a unique aspect of church history. However, it is more than just ecumenical history. I found it both inspiring and convicting. I believe this new understanding will affect my prayer life going forward.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The subtitle of this book excellently describes its contents."Revival stories that stretch and stir."That is precisely what I found as I read this book. A GOD-SIZED VISION covers many of the major historical revivals including both Great Awakenings, the Prayer Meeting Revival in 1857, the Welsh Revival, the East African Revivals, and the revivals in China in the 1900's.On every page, the reader is challenged, encouraged and convicted by voices from the past that call us to cry out to God for revival in our day.I was also impressed with how the writers focused on many of the women God used in these great revivals in history including Lottie Moon, Pandita Ramabai, and Henrietta Mears, who was Bill Bright's mentor and friend.The authors do a great service to the reader by refusing to try and boil down all these wonderful stories into some sort of formula. They avoid the "do-these-things-and-God-MUST-act" fallacy. They recognize and submit to God's sovereignty throughout.In the conclusion of the book, Hansen and Woodbridge do provide some encouragement to the reader to seek God to revive His church and awaken His people once again. I found that I closed the book with a firm resolve to do exactly that.These stories are a part of our heritage as Christians. They must not be forgotten, they need to be told again and again. I am so glad that A GOD-SIZED VISION has captured this piece of church history in a way that moves beyond a dry and passionless reporting of events and into a clarion call for God's people to beg Him for revival once again.He has done it before. Why not hear? Why not now?