What is Your Role in Revival?

Next Sunday, Tharptown Baptist Church will hold a special “Day of Revival”. Dr. Ed Newton will be preaching in the morning and evening services. Bro. Ed is well known in the Shoals area for his ministry at “The Well”, a popular worship service for college students at Highland Baptist Church in Florence. He and his wife, Stephanie, have three children and reside in Lakeland, TN.



Shane Baker will be leading in praise and worship in both services. Shane leads worship at the early worship service each week at First Methodist Church in Sheffield and at Faith Church in Florence.

These men will do their part next week in bringing revival to Tharptown. They will preach and lead us in worship. But for God to send revival to Tharptown, we must do our part too. I believe this quote best describes the church member’s role in revival.

“Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival…that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.” C. H. Spurgeon

Our role in revival is to make consistent and persistent intercession before God, the Great Revivalist. Let us all do our part this week to bring revival to Tharptown.

Restless at Home

Maybe it’s just me, but I sense that some folks are beginning to get just a little bit restless about our who our next pastor might be. So, let me reassure you if I may. Your Pastor Search Team is hard at work, diligently searching for God’s man to fill our pulpit. These things take time and we are trying to be very deliberate, discerning, and most of all biblical in the process.

On the bright side, we do think we are making progress. Saturday before last, all seven of us took a road trip and spent about four hours conducting a second interview with a potential candidate. Is he the one? I don’t know, but we are prayerfully considering him at present.

And that touches on what I want to stress today. Please be in prayer for your search team, the candidate we are considering, his family and our church. I am as anxious as anyone to move forward, but we must move prayerfully and only as God leads because this is a momentous decision for all concerned.

The Old Testament is filled with heart breaking trials that Israel suffered because of their impatience. So, lets all commit to prayerfully and expectantly wait on the Lord to fill His pulpit here at Tharptown.

God Bless,
Bro. Ken