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  A REVIVED CHURCH -- THE ONLY HOPE FOR A DYING WORLD
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: The church has the charge of the world entrusted to it, to be a
light in the darkness and to bring people out of darkness into light.

Topics: "Revival", "Church's Mission"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:14

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that the church holds the responsibility of
continuing Christ's work on earth, empowered by the Holy Spirit. He
explains that just as Christ was sent by the Father, the church and its
members are called to be witnesses, illuminating the darkness of the
world. The Holy Spirit is essential in convicting the world of sin and
revealing Christ through believers. Murray calls for the church to be
wholly devoted to this mission, embodying the light of Christ to lead
others from darkness into light.

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The church has the charge of the world entrusted to it. When Christ had
finished his work on earth, and went to heaven to carry it on there, he
spoke of two powers to whom the continuation of the work on earth was to
be committed.

He spoke of the Holy Spirit, who, equally with God himself and the
Father, should come in his name to convict the world of sin, and be a
divine power in his disciples to reveal himself in them, and so make
them witnesses for him to the ends of the earth.

He spoke of his disciples as those whom he sent into the world, even as
the Father had sent him. Just as entirely as he had lived to do the
Father's will in saving men and women, was his Spirit to do that work
too. And just as wholly as the Spirit was to be devoted to that work,
was the body, the church, to be set apart for it too.

The whole body of believers, and every individual believer, was to be
like Christ, the light of the world, placed in the world with the one
definite, exclusive object of enlightening its darkness, and bringing
men and women out of darkness into light.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 11)

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