Because revival isn't just something we want to admire in history. It's something God invites us to participate in, in our world and in our episode in this revival series.

I've loved walking through these revival episodes with you.

I hope you have.

We've certainly covered a lot where it starts,

where it goes, how it shifts culture. And now I want to take it really personal to how to be an

everyday revivalist. Because as we live on mission, Matthew 2819, this is truly about how God

wants to use revival to change us to impact the world.

That's what our lives are all about.

So what does it look like to carry revival today in our world, in our time?

Because revival isn't just something we want to admire in history.

It's something God invites us to participate in, in our world and in our culture in this moment.

Revival is for now, not for nostalgia.

I think sometimes when we talk about revival, it can feel like we're describing something that

belongs in a museum or a documentary, perhaps, the early church, the Welsh revival of the early

1900s, the Great Awakenings, Azusa Street, the Jesus Movement. And yes, these are beautiful

moments and powerful stories and certainly impactful things that happen in history, miracles,

mass salvations. But we don't talk about these to put them on a pedestal, to pine for them,

or to archive them, put them in some kind of like box or on a shelf or, you know, just to look at them

like trophies. We look at them to be inspired by what

God did and to remind us of something really critical, that the God who did all of that

isn't just the God of back then. He's the God of right now. He's your God. He's my God. He is the same powerful God

that did the miracles and changed hearts and changed lives and caused the fire back then. It's the

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