God Visits a Two-Stoplight Town in Kentucky
Two weeks ago at the Asbury University chapel in Wilmore Kentucky, Zach Meerkreebs, a volunteer soccer coach gave an improvised sermon about love, “If you need to hear the voice of God—the Father in Heaven...that is perfect in love, gentle and kind—you come up here and experience his love. Don’t waste this opportunity.”
Students, moved by his message, lingered. At first, it was just a few who stayed back to pray while everyone else headed to class. But then students began texting each other: "you need to come back to chapel, something is happening..."
Over the ensuing weeks, over 50,000 Christians from all walks of life have gathered together to pray, sing, cry, and worship nonstop in Asbury.
This morning from my distant home in Paradise Utah, I watched a video clip of the revival and started to cry myself. It was powerful. Perhaps what touched me most was how so many people, from so many different backgrounds and lifestyles were at this moment, one in the love of God and his Son Jesus Christ. (Video link below.)
I saw these people, not as a group, but as individuals, each yearning to connect to something beyond themselves...something that could answer their need for meaning and inclusion. A glimpse of God, whatever they understood that to be.
Differences disappeared as the Spirit came in equal measure to them all. There were no questions of worthiness that sorted them one from another, or specific qualifications that restricted their participation. None of that mattered here, and I thought "this is how it should be...all who raise their hands in faith are immediately blessed, wrapped in its wonder.”
I have long felt that God is bigger than any single denomination or faith tradition and that what we share in common far outweighs our differences. In Asbury Kentucky these past two weeks, God has shown it to be so...
Video Link: As you watch this 30-second video, don't let the music or the enthusiasm turn you off because it may be different from the way you worship, ponder what is in the hearts of these Brothers and Sisters: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1626781884461072388/vid/720x960/sSzPM7uErnzV0EDJ.mp4?tag=16
TestifyofChrist
February-2023
Author’s Note: In 1970 a similar event occurred at Asbury University which ultimately swept across the nation and the world. It began in a similar way, with the testimony of a single student. If you like what you’ve read here, please take the time to watch this separate video of the event. It will give you hope and may even change your life:
