Great interview!!! I love hearing straight from the source!!! I am so excited to see what God is doing at this place, and I believe that it will spread like a wildfire!!!
Great interview! Dr. Powers was the perfect guest to report on this. BTW I grew up going to “revivals” in the ‘70s. These were planned events, usually a week of nightly worship services with guest preachers. The best were “tent” revivals held under a literal big tent. I remember revivals at our little UMC, where the entire congregation was kneeling, praying, crying and testifying. That was an awesome experience that seems rare these days. I praise God for the students and faculty at Asbury!
Praise God for this outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon these young people! Yes, their life experiences may be different from our own experiences, but I do believe God is touching these young people in way they want to live for Him. I see young people on these videos, loving God with all their heart, soul and minds. God loves them and asks us to do the same. Loving God IS REPENTENCE!!!!
I was at a similar move of God at Houghton College, a Wesleyan Methodist College (now University) as a freshman in 1959. It started in a similar way after a Chapel Service. I don't remember what the speaker asked or said, but someone confessed sin in their lives and asked God for forgiveness, then, one after another, students began doing the same thing. This move was a CONFESSION OF SIN AND ASKING GOD FOR FORGIVENESS. This was the essence of the whole "revival". I don't hear this from the professor. He talks of "love" ONLY! By the way, I am a graduate of Asbury Seminary in 1965. I just wonder if it's the same Asbury in Spirit that it was at then. I really wish I could come up there and see what's going on but I'm too old and just too tired even though I'm in good shape. You asked him about "speaking in tongues", emotion and the music. His answer was that there is a "controlling element" concerning that and we need to respect THEIR MODE OF WORSHIP. I wonder if you or the professor knows that in early Methodist revivals, speaking in tongues and gifts of the spirit were manifest and John Wesley was asked what he thought. He said as long as it did not turn to uncontrollable extremism it was OK. I'd be curious to know what kind of music they are using. If it's LITURGICAL or this modern so called "worship band" music which is nothing more than dressed up rock and roll rap, then forget it, you'll have NO REVIVAL! The world is on the verge of World War III, we have had a DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, we have LGBTQ and it's tearing the Methodist Church apart but he mentions no concerns/prayer for any of this!
It’s my understanding that Duke Divinity has put in an application to the official Board of Political Correctness for permission to have something similar happen . Here’s hoping they get permission ( fingers crossed !!)
@@bjohnmasters Jesus called Pharisees a "brood of vipers", and "white washed tombs". John the Baptist said even harsher things, said that they were useless trees God was going to cut down and throw into eternal flames. Elijah provoked the prophets of Baal by asking if their god couldn't hear them because he was relieving himself?! We are told to speak the truth in love, what Natasha said didn't sound unloving, just truthful. And pretty funny.
@@bjohnmastersfirst, those weren't my words, I didn't say those words. Go back and reread what I said, the words that you were offended by were from another poster. Second, the reason people are leaving the Church is because they were never saved to begin with. They were never truly born again, they never truly repented and believed, otherwise they wouldn't leave the Church! How can anyone who truly understands the gift GOD has given us, by sending His Son to die in our place, for sins we committed, leave HIS Church? Furthermore, the reason people can go to church and never believe, never become sons and daughters of GOD, is because the church preaches an unbalanced, incomplete gospel, which only focuses on God's love, without mentioning His righteousness, and his JUDGEMENT. Yes God loves us each now as we are, but He doesn't want us to stay that way, He doesn't want us to remain in our sins, He wants us to repent of our sins, and to turn away from them, to God. He wants us to daily take up our cross and follow Him. Which means dying to ourselves, and being conformed into the image of Christ. I am sure there are people who will speak the truth at Duke, and many other seminaries around the nation, (I knew a small number at the one I attended) but if you don't see that the vast majority of seminaries and universities around this nation are indoctrinating their students with woke, Marxist, UNGODLY ideology, with propaganda about homosexuality and transgenderism, etc..., well then I just don't know what to tell you. The joke for years, has been that those of us who attended seminary, called it "going to cemetery", because kids go in full of faith and on fire for Christ, and come out, bitter, hurt, and dead inside, because what they get taught is materialism, and secular humanist, garbage. I've seen what these woke leftist seminaries do to a young person's faith, and the LORD has seen as well, and He will rightly judge! He knows those faithful teachers and pastors who encourage faith and teach the truth, and he knows the ones who pretend to be Christian, but teach tolerance of sin. It would be better that a millstone be hung around their necks and they drown, than what they are doing. So if you know of people at Duke who are teaching truth, then know that the joke isn't aimed at them, but rather at the fallen institution and the EVIL leadership that allows heresy to be taught.
@@bjohnmasters I have absolutely no idea what in the living freak you are talking about . Only thing I can even begin to figure out is that , for some very odd reason, you are extremely defensive about a tongue-in-cheek teasing joke based in FACT , no matter how much it hurt your wittle feelings.- signed a Duke Div graduate who apparently knows more than you - through years of first -hand experience -how much the “ gospel of PC” is THE gospel everywhere at Duke and I’m a person who totally supports LBGTQ rights - but not cuz of PC. >> then you are being hateful and disingenuous and that is why so many people are leaving the church 🙄
I have been listening to a lot of interviews like this. I hear a lot of references to God and the Spirit.....but barely anything about Christ. Why is this movement not more Christ Centered?
Very honest insight into how the struggle to handle the masses with the move of the presence of God. Very well spoke of and doing. 🙏
Great interview!!! I love hearing straight from the source!!! I am so excited to see what God is doing at this place, and I believe that it will spread like a wildfire!!!
What a beautiful visit! I especially loved the "live" illustration on true worship that his student recognized from class🎶❣🎶
🙏🏽😁🕊 Praise God !!!
Great interview! Dr. Powers was the perfect guest to report on this. BTW I grew up going to “revivals” in the ‘70s. These were planned events, usually a week of nightly worship services with guest preachers. The best were “tent” revivals held under a literal big tent. I remember revivals at our little UMC, where the entire congregation was kneeling, praying, crying and testifying. That was an awesome experience that seems rare these days. I praise God for the students and faculty at Asbury!
Praise God for this outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon these young people! Yes, their life experiences may be different from our own experiences, but I do believe God is touching these young people in way they want to live for Him. I see young people on these videos, loving God with all their heart, soul and minds. God loves them and asks us to do the same. Loving God IS REPENTENCE!!!!
I was at a similar move of God at Houghton College, a Wesleyan Methodist College (now University) as a freshman in 1959. It started in a similar way after a Chapel Service. I don't remember what the speaker asked or said, but someone confessed sin in their lives and asked God for forgiveness, then, one after another, students began doing the same thing. This move was a CONFESSION OF SIN AND ASKING GOD FOR FORGIVENESS. This was the essence of the whole "revival". I don't hear this from the professor. He talks of "love" ONLY!
By the way, I am a graduate of Asbury Seminary in 1965. I just wonder if it's the same Asbury in Spirit that it was at then. I really wish I could come up there and see what's going on but I'm too old and just too tired even though I'm in good shape.
You asked him about "speaking in tongues", emotion and the music. His answer was that there is a "controlling element" concerning that and we need to respect THEIR MODE OF WORSHIP. I wonder if you or the professor knows that in early Methodist revivals, speaking in tongues and gifts of the spirit were manifest and John Wesley was asked what he thought. He said as long as it did not turn to uncontrollable extremism it was OK. I'd be curious to know what kind of music they are using. If it's LITURGICAL or this modern so called "worship band" music which is nothing more than dressed up rock and roll rap, then forget it, you'll have NO REVIVAL!
The world is on the verge of World War III, we have had a DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, we have LGBTQ and it's tearing the Methodist Church apart but he mentions no concerns/prayer for any of this!
It’s my understanding that Duke Divinity has put in an application to the official Board of Political Correctness for permission to have something similar happen . Here’s hoping they get permission ( fingers crossed !!)
@@bjohnmasters Jesus called Pharisees a "brood of vipers", and "white washed tombs".
John the Baptist said even harsher things, said that they were useless trees God was going to cut down and throw into eternal flames.
Elijah provoked the prophets of Baal by asking if their god couldn't hear them because he was relieving himself?!
We are told to speak the truth in love, what Natasha said didn't sound unloving, just truthful. And pretty funny.
@@bjohnmastersfirst, those weren't my words, I didn't say those words. Go back and reread what I said, the words that you were offended by were from another poster.
Second, the reason people are leaving the Church is because they were never saved to begin with.
They were never truly born again, they never truly repented and believed, otherwise they wouldn't leave the Church! How can anyone who truly understands the gift GOD has given us, by sending His Son to die in our place, for sins we committed, leave HIS Church?
Furthermore, the reason people can go to church and never believe, never become sons and daughters of GOD, is because the church preaches an unbalanced, incomplete gospel, which only focuses on God's love, without mentioning His righteousness, and his JUDGEMENT.
Yes God loves us each now as we are, but He doesn't want us to stay that way, He doesn't want us to remain in our sins, He wants us to repent of our sins, and to turn away from them, to God.
He wants us to daily take up our cross and follow Him. Which means dying to ourselves, and being conformed into the image of Christ.
I am sure there are people who will speak the truth at Duke, and many other seminaries around the nation, (I knew a small number at the one I attended) but if you don't see that the vast majority of seminaries and universities around this nation are indoctrinating their students with woke, Marxist, UNGODLY ideology, with propaganda about homosexuality and transgenderism, etc..., well then I just don't know what to tell you.
The joke for years, has been that those of us who attended seminary, called it "going to cemetery", because kids go in full of faith and on fire for Christ, and come out, bitter, hurt, and dead inside, because what they get taught is materialism, and secular humanist, garbage.
I've seen what these woke leftist seminaries do to a young person's faith, and the LORD has seen as well, and He will rightly judge!
He knows those faithful teachers and pastors who encourage faith and teach the truth, and he knows the ones who pretend to be Christian, but teach tolerance of sin.
It would be better that a millstone be hung around their necks and they drown, than what they are doing.
So if you know of people at Duke who are teaching truth, then know that the joke isn't aimed at them, but rather at the fallen institution and the EVIL leadership that allows heresy to be taught.
@@bjohnmasters I have absolutely no idea what in the living freak you are talking about . Only thing I can even begin to figure out is that , for some very odd reason, you are extremely defensive about a tongue-in-cheek teasing joke based in FACT , no matter how much it hurt your wittle feelings.- signed a Duke Div graduate who apparently knows more than you - through years of first -hand experience -how much the “ gospel of PC” is THE gospel everywhere at Duke and I’m a person who totally supports LBGTQ rights - but not cuz of PC.
>> then you are being hateful and disingenuous and that is why so many people are leaving the church 🙄
We'll see whether racial prejudice remains...or vanishes. Fresh Holy Spirit fruit or just wax replicas.
I have been listening to a lot of interviews like this. I hear a lot of references to God and the Spirit.....but barely anything about Christ. Why is this movement not more Christ Centered?