Asbury Revival: Professor calls for end to 'public phase' as school scrambles to address overcrowding
Asbury University is phasing out the public aspect of its on-campus revival as the small college town of Wilmore, Kentucky, is overwhelmed with tens of thousands of visitors.
Don't listen to the professor or the the communications director. Communications we are all witnessing are from the holy spirit. The Lord will lead you. Not these mere men.
So nice of this “professor” to do something to stop this troublesome move of God. It’s interfering with him getting paid to teach the kids how to move with God.
I imagine there are real logistical concerns for the community. I suggest that the worshipping community address those concerns, solve any and all identified problems. Demonstrating the power and love of a Christian community. Through communication, outreach and organization; people can harmonize and cooperate. But yeah... back off on any attempt to stifle, constrain or confound what is naturally occurring. Then again; God may be working more wonders via conflict... I trust His plan, whatever it is.
I understand Asbury is a very small town - 6,000. they are inundated with visitors and perhaps nowhere to house them. I learned that the Salvation Army rented outdoor heaters for the hundreds of people in overflow outdoors. Also, this is a university, and students have classes and midterms coming up for which they or their parents have paid. Perhaps many of these students are under 21, which makes Asbury University responsible and liable for student welfare.. Finally, midterms are coming up next week. This is a lot to consider and balance. In a litigious culture, the university needs to protect itself. Just one or two people who are perhaps not believers can come in and cause a lot of trouble. In such a very small community, hotels, restaurants, and other services may likely be stressed. Perhaps people in Asbury want to attend.
We should be praying for them if we are concerned. We should be generous with our comments and opinions. Pray for guidance and wisdom and provision. If this is a move of God, (and by all accounts, it is) nothing can stop it and hopefully it will spread across the US and the world.
If one breaks out near me, I’ll open my home.
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Enemy spotted. Now give him a kick in the ass. Shut up or get out.
Jesus would take a fish, a loaf of bread and feed the crowd and roll with it. When miracles happen get out of the way.
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Ride his ass out on a rail! Old school style.
The LORD will move as HE WILLS and Everybody needs to put their TRUST in HIM. Our finite minds cannot attempt to know the moving of the LORD's HANDS
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People want something real in their lives. They are desperate to connect to something that gives a feeling of hope and contentment. This is a good thing for everyone involved. Let it flow.
Of course, Satan enters the chat
So what? An obvious "red flag" is the notion of a supposedly especially intense or intimate presence of the Holy Spirit being localized to a particular geographic place or gathering ... with the tacit implication either that people need to go there to experience it, or that it needs to somehow "spread" from there. These are the characteristics of flash in the pan, emotion based, mass hysteria movements. I am dumbfounded how little Christians know about the person of the Holy Spirit and his work as described in the New Testament.
Would I like to be proven wrong? Sure, but none of the true biblical markers are clear whatsoever.
Whatever the cause I am glad to see God's profile being publicly raised and made visible.