OPINION (Charisma) – Pastor Francis Chan says he’s tired of man-made revivals and warned the church that there’s no time for “playing games” anymore. Chan’s comments came during a February 6 speech at Liberty University’s Convocation gathering. Chan, an avid surfer, compared man-made revivals to a wave pool—controlled and fun, but ultimately predictable and artificial. He says he came to that realization while visiting a wave pool in Waco, Texas. “One of my favorite things to do on this earth is to surf,” Chan says. “So I just go, ‘OK, what is this wave pool like?’ And it was really cool.
It just showed these people playing on this wave that comes in and I thought ‘That’s kind of cool. Like every 30 seconds, you know.’ Because usually when you surf, you paddle out in the water [and] you don’t know if a wave is coming or not. You kind of assume, you kind of see some things, but there’s so much unknown. I thought ‘That’s so nice. You can just paddle out to this one spot in this pool and know what wave is going to come, and you know when it’s going to peak and then it’s going to die out, and you just paddle back out to the exact same spot over and over and over again. That’s pretty fun.’ READ MORE
