{"id":1190,"date":"2012-11-26T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2012-11-26T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:59:30","slug":"extreme-makeover-revival-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"EXTREME MAKEOVER &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; REVIVAL EDITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Revival does not just reform or refurbish or repaint.<\/p>\n<p>Real Revival Renovates.<\/p>\n<p>Renovation starts with identifying necessary changes and tearing out everything unfit for the extreme makeover.<\/p>\n<p>Past Revivals&#8212;Great Awakenings&#8212;were marked by unmistakable, permanent changes in individual lives.<\/p>\n<p>Churches were changed, not on the surface, not by temporary revivals, not by organizing and planning, but by moves of God and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Crime dropped dramatically in times of Great Awakenings.<\/p>\n<p>In America today, what would extreme makeover &#8211; revival edition look like?\u00a0 What would be the authentic verification of change?<\/p>\n<p>REPENT OF SIN = RELEASE OF STUFF<\/p>\n<p>When we see Christians and churches getting rid of their stashes of stuff and money saved for the uncertain future, then we will know true revival that renovates.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing less will do much good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Revival does not just reform or refurbish or repaint. Real Revival Renovates. Renovation starts with identifying necessary changes and tearing out everything unfit for the extreme makeover. Past Revivals&#8212;Great Awakenings&#8212;were marked by unmistakable, permanent changes in individual lives. Churches were changed, not on the surface, not by temporary revivals, not by organizing and planning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}