We believe that an Empowered Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ who has fully internalized the gospel. They have been, and are being daily, more empowered by God. They have been born-again, have internalized their status as a new creation and a child of God, and are not only permitting but encouraging the Holy Spirit to sanctify every part of their being and life. They are confident of their salvation and are being healed of the wounds of their former lives. They are Holy Spirit-filled and are allowing the fruits of the Spirit to manifest in their life in the ways that they love their neighbors.

They live with moral integrity and constantly pursue righteousness, justice, and mercy. They are responsible and accountable for their character, their witness, and their actions. Their desire to become more Christ-like humbles them and they accept correction from brothers and sisters in Christ. They are being empowered by God in their purpose and calling. They have accepted the call to live in this world – and not of this world. They are harnessing and developing the spiritual gifts the Holy Spirit has uniquely given them and using them to fulfill their unique calling, to build up the church, heal the hurting, bring the gospel to the lost, and make disciples of Jesus. An empowered Christian is one who is becoming more and more daily, “all in.”

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The Revival we want to create is a Church and a community with growing numbers of “empowered” Christians. Perhaps a better word might be “Awakening” as in the Great Awakenings throughout church history. We want to see the church (as a whole) be on fire for God and look more like the first-century church! We want to see more in the Body of Christ reflecting the character, motives, actions, and heart of Christ.

We don’t use revival as a buzz word, meaning a movement of one particular denomination or style of Christian expression. Nor do we mean a specifically-charismatic-focused spiritual outpouring. In fact, many of the things called revival are spiritual counterfeits with false teachings attempting to replace the pre-eminence of God’s Word, the Gospel, and Christ-crucified with godless teachings and emotional or spiritual “experiences.”

We deny that everything in these types of movements has been all bad though. There has been both good and evil as a result of these charismatic-gift centered revivals. However, for the sake of clarity, when we say revival we mean purely the revival of spiritually dead people and societies into ones made alive by the Spirit of God!

Revival—means progress, improvement, rebirth, resurgence, regeneration, transformation, promotion, advancement, and revitalization—of people and cultures truly becoming God’s people and under His Kingdom influence. Our goal is to promote a massive shift away from the many deceptive beliefs and godless practices occurring in the church back towards worshipping God in spirit and truth. It will be a refocus back to the gospel of Christ-crucified that will revive those in the Church and bring everyone else far from God to healing and towards transformed hearts, minds, and lives.

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No, our organization is not a church. We are a nondenominational para-church ministry. But we do own and operate a church: Transformation Church, a global family of house churches. We encourage you to check it out!