The heart of restoration is the restoration of hearts
IN almost every revival since the reformation there has been great emphasis on restoring the Church to its New Testament pattern, as a result of which we have today a plethora of churches which claim to be the true order. This dampens the fire of revival as quickly as it comes - for all God's revelations are developmental and not final. There is no stopping place in God. God who knows the end from the beginning makes known His plan progressively. However the tendency of man is put the temporary in a permanent form, to build walls around one piece of revelation as if it were the whole.
Many also believe that since they have a revelation on one or several matters it naturally must follow that they are correct in all matters or that they have the complete revelation. They shut the door by this act instead of leaving it open.
In the midst of such rubbles and revolts, we yearn to be - as someone said "within the whole church there is to be found a 'hidden seed' of growth that survive and always continue to develop" or as another man of God put it, " little church within the church, that survived”.
