A Stranger in the House of God

A Stranger in the House of God


Pass Me Not

February 27, 2023

Several years ago, at the Bible college where I taught, news reached the campus that a revival had broken out among the students of another school. It was much like the recent event at Asbury University, though on a smaller scale. The stories we heard were similar. Students knelt and wept at the front of the chapel as they asked God to forgive their sins. There was singing and confessing.Some of the students on our campus were unsettled by these reports. But not for the reasons you might think. it seemed to me, that our students' initial reaction to the news was one of disappointment rather than rejoicing. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that it produced a kind of petulance and self-recrimination. "What is wrong with us," they seemed to say, "that the Spirit would pass us by and choose to fall on them?"