8/30 Monday Meditation: A Plea for the Return to the Supernatural

I'm going to break away from E.W. Kenyon for a day to share something I read in the August 2010 issue of Charisma (p. 54):

"... in China ... it is estimated that healings in Jesus' name have led to roughly half of the millions of conversions there in recent decades. That estimate comes from the China Christian Council, which is affiliated with the Protestant, state-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement. A source with the underground church in China offers a far higher estimate: 90 percent."

The majority of the Muslims in Africa who come to Christ do so because of dreams and visions of Jesus speaking to them. I've read that whole churches are made up of people who have had "The Dream". I've also read that "The Dream" has become so common that African Muslims routinely ask one another, "Have you seen 'The Man' yet?"

We in America have been trained in recent years to believe that the most relevant and effective form of evangelism is friendship or relational evangelism. We tend to dismiss the supernatural as a form of evangelism. (Perhaps we dismiss it and seek other forms of evangelism because real Holy Spirit power is gone from our churches.) But miracles, signs, wonders, healing, and tongues are how all of the converts were won in the Book of Acts.

Let's pray for a return of the supernatural to spark evangelism and revival in our churches.

"I fear that the day will come when the supernatural is no longer seen in our Alliance churches." --A.B. Simpson (approximate quote)

"The church that is not supernatural is superficial." -- Source Unknown