1 Thessalonians 5:19-28 – Putting Out The Spirit’s Fire

We often pray for revival but it doesn’t ever seem to come. Charles Finney, the great revivalist of the 19th Century, believed that the main barrier to revival was the quenching of the Spirit within the church. How do we quench the Spirit? Finney suggested the following list of ways: 1) By the lack of faith 2) By resisting truth 3) By violating conscience 4) By overindulging our appetites 5) By a bad temperament 6) By gossiping and showing prejudice. […]