Pete Grieg - Awakening Cry

"Such people find themselves sobered by their own spiritual impotence, saddened by the state of the church and sickened by the sin of the world. They love God's people and grieve that it is increasingly easier to be "christian" than a follower of Christ. They feel the pain when church leaders fall. They grieve as theologians apologise for miracles and preachers peddle cheap grace, modelling mediocracy and daring to build theologies for it.

And all the while friends and neighbours remain untouched by the gospel, unimpressed by the Saviour, with hearts like stone. Newspapers are full of oppression and injustice with scandal at home and starvation abroad. Television bleeds the pain of the world into our living rooms while we sip tea. But these true revivalists dream that God would breathe upon this generation one last time. This is their prayer, their heart-cry, their obession. This is an honest heart for revival and I write this book for all of those with this blood in their veins, to play a very small part in preparing the way of the Lord."

"Scripture challenges us to transform society from within but tragically we have often done just the opposite, retreating into a religious ghetto. At such a distance we fail to season and illuminate society and are seen as irrelevant by the rest of the population."

"We should regard revival as the restoration of normal Christian experience rather than the occasional elevation of it."