Other "Thinking Drafts" and writing by Keith Drury -- http://www.indwes.edu/tuesday
Thoughts for the Recently Revived
You’ve recently experienced God in a powerful new way? You’ve were a nominal Christian – but now that you’ve had a religious experience which totally turned your life around. You are now an emptied out, sold out, surrendered, filled and empowered 100%er. You can think of little else but how shallow you were before and how filled with power you are now. And you think everyone else needs just what you just received. Consider these thoughts for the “recently revived” while you are so hot.
A young woman or young man with a powerful new spiritual experience is often too quick to search for a label. "I was never saved all my life 'till now," or "God baptized me with the Holy Spirit yesterday." You might be right, and labels can be useful. But you might be wrong. Labeling experiences too soon o