Via Cerulean Sanctum I found Chandrakant Chavada's blog. Chavada is apparently something of an apostle in India, spreading the gospel and overseeing various ministries. He has some interesting stories, like this one about a man who was healed of paralysis, resulting in a number of conversions in the local village. His blog is full of posts about miracles and large-scale conversions and community awakenings. This move of God has apparently roused the ire of local enemies of the cross, however, and there is a nationalist attempt at forced reconversion of some of the Christians there, a frightening prospect that we should keep in our prayers. I'm going to keep my bets on the success of the gospel, however.

I long to see this sort of thing in America and Europe, but I feel the non-charismatic evangelical community here does not see this sort of revival for one simple reason: we do not seek it. We love our theological debates on polity and the sovereignty of God, we love to stand firm on issues such as justification by faith and biblical inerrancy, but by and large we fail to seek the power of God displayed in any way that might make us uncomfortable. Perhaps in the end we are - unlike our Indian brethren - children of the Enlightenment in a more significant sense than we think. We value the intellectual and the reasonable things of God over supernatural displays of His power and glory. We worship Him in the crystal clear waters of truth but neglect worshipping Him in the fire of the Spirit. This is to our shame. I pray that the evangelical church would realize this and cry with Habakkuk, "LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy." (Hab. 3:2) When good theology is united with a passion for the power of God, then He may use us to shake the foundations of the kingdom of darkness. Until then we will continue to sound the horn of cultural retreat in the west.