By Judge Phil Ginn for THE CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK
There is a bittersweet irony ready to unfold in America. A most wonderful happening is ready to burst forth on the screen of our nation. When it does, it will probably be unlike anything that has been seen at least in the last 75 years.
We are already beginning to detect precursors of this great event. Widespread anecdotal evidence is popping up even in some of the most unexpected places. The settings are certainly not the usual suspects for such events. But yet, at Asbury University, Auburn University, Lee University in Cleveland, Ohio State University, Clemson University, and Florida State University, along with more minor snippets in college towns all across the country, the authentication is there. You ask what these episodic phenomena might be. They are nothing more than the almost spontaneous outbreaks of Holy Spirit-filled evangelical Christian revivals.
If you look closely, you can see a thread that runs through these occurrences: they are all taking place on college campuses. Are they a portend of greater movements to come? Only time can reveal that answer. But there is every indication that these may be the seismic shocks that precede the outbreak of the earthquake of true revival in America.
There is a sad irony, however, in another common thread for these events. Again, if you are paying attention, you will note that not one of these outpourings occurred within the confines of an organized church setting, and if the truth be known, there may not even be any church involved at all in many of these cases.
