Revival!

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Asbury Methodist College, Wilmore KY, 1970

Tuesday, February 3rd began as an ordinary morning for the students of Asbury Methodist College, but the events of the following few days would trigger a chain of events that affected the body of Christ for decades to come. As the first weekly morning chapel of the new month began, College Dean Custer Reynolds invited students to come forward and give testimony to what God was doing in their lives. As the first few students came forward to take the microphone, the Presence of God descended in the room in such a powerful way as to impact everyone there. Wrote one witness “A few minutes ago there came a spontaneous move of the Holy Spirit. I have never witnessed such a mighty outpouring of God upon His people. The scene is unbelievable!” For the next 185 hours, there was a continuous unbroken stream of students and later, faculty and staff stepping to the microphone to confess and publicly repent of sin, and to tell of the change God was making in their heart. By the second day, reporters from nearby Lexington KY began media coverage of the event and by the end of third day, the meeting had received nationwide attention. Most classes were cancelled; the few which continued became smaller reflections of the larger meeting going on at Hughes Auditorium. By the end of the seventh day, requests were flooding in from college campuses, churches and Christian organizations all over the United States asking Asbury College to send teams of students to share their experiences. In many cases, similar outpourings of the Holy Spirit came as Asbury students shared testimony of revival fire across the country, and as far away as Canada and Latin America. Dennis Kinlaw, the Asbury College president, started that long-ago week as a doubter of the revival, but ended as a believer in the revival’s power and truth. “There was this sense of the divine presence that one doesn’t have often in his life,” he said. “And when you do have it, you never quite get over it … You know. You know. You know it in your bone marrow.”

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