Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
Interpretation
Revival starts within individuals who align with their faith, and this change influences the broader world.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the importance of personal transformation among Christians as a catalyst for broader societal change. He suggests that true revival and renewal in the world begin with individuals who renew their commitment to their faith, thereby inspiring others and affecting the community at large. This highlights the power of individual action and integrity in fostering collective improvement.
In practice
During a church service, the pastor quoted this to inspire personal reflection.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
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