Let Your Fire Fall
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For most of my professional career, I was primarily responsible for creating compelling worship experiences for people. This included using sound systems that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and lighting and projection systems that would create an environment that was conducive to a great worship service. The sense of excellence in any auditorium was what I was responsible for in my career. As a professional worship pastor one thing you’ll hear a lot is the term “excellence.” Excellence was always front and center at the altar of the Megachurch mindset. We would hear cheering after our program and often mistake that for revival.
In Matthew 7 Jesus tells the story of a man who built his house on sand. When the waves come it rips his house down. This is a lot like what we are experiencing right now in the church. Churches have built revivals on the sand of applause and attendance. The foundations of what is considered a modern-day revival is more measured today in numbers rather than anything changing forever. These so called revivals tend to be washed away when the complexity of life, and the nuance of the human experience come to the shore.
What if we were willing to let go of all the things that we think of as our revival? What if the wave of people deconstructing their faith is the revival? I’ve noticed people in the deconstruction realm being touted as heretics and put down or demonized as unfaithful to God. For generations pastors and faithful leaders have prayed for revival. It is upon us, and may not look like what we often asked for.
When I wrote the song, Let Your Fire Fall on my new album, I was desperate to have an experience with the Holy Spirit again. I had been tired of being let down by what was behind the curtain in my church experience. I knew how to make a room of people feel like they had a Holy Spirit experience, but I just wanted the real thing. This song was my cry and prayer that I only wanted Jesus and I was done building my revivals on sand.
WHAT IS YOUR REVIVAL RIGHT NOW?
