Once you've humbled yourself and repented from sin, there's incredible joy.

Nancy Damas Walgumu says a lot of churches today focus on the joy while skipping the

repentance. In fact, we don't want to get to the brokenness and confession and repentance part at all.

We want to skip over that.

That's too down, that's too narrow, that's too negative.

You know, that's no way to draw seekers to church. I'll tell you how to draw seekers to church.

I'll tell you how to draw seekers to church.

Let those who say they're the finders,

the people who say they found Christ,

let them get right with God,

and seekers will come.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth,

author of Lies Women Believe and The Truth that sets them free.

For July 10, 2024, I'm Danna Gresch.

When was the last time you wept in church?

You probably sung a lot of joyful worship songs,

but have you cried out in repentance.

If churches were to spend some time weeping and repenting, it would make the joyful times

of singing even more deep and meaningful according to Nancy Demas Walgamuth, here she is to explain.

Nancy's continuing in the series, The Cry of the Captives.

I love reading about revivals of the past in case you can't tell. I started reading

some of those kinds of stories when I was probably in junior high school. I don't know

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