Week 4: Performing Awakening

What are we going to do?

Over the last four weeks, I’ve repeated this line many times:

Awakenings are not revivals.

Revivals are, in American history at least, rituals of personal and institutional renewal that typically result in individual conversions and growth in church membership.

And that’s not what we’re talking about.

Awakenings may (or may not) include revivals, but they…