It has been said that Mexico is in “societal freefall.” The difficulties are enormous but at the same time there is light for those who can see.
On our recent trip to Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Irapuato I noticed an increasing number of young people who are desperately hungry for more of God. At the same time they are bored stiff with attending the endless succession of church meetings where they are required to sit in neat rows and listen to someone give a talk. They are tired of the worn-out clichés of preachers and singers in silk suits and pearly teeth who do the miracles on TV while the people say, “WOW” and send in their money. These young people want more. They want participatory Christianity. They want the New Testament in action. They want to do the miracles themselves but not like the TV preachers who glorify themselves, but in ways that bring glory only to Jesus. They are content to stay hidden. All these factors together are extremely encouraging to me. My studies of revival movements reveal that almost all revivals begin with a small group of young people who are dissatisfied with their present state of spirituality and begin seeking more of God in prayer, meditation and even pilgrimage. When they become desperate enough to honestly put everything they have and everything they are on the altar of God and hold nothing back, then, He answers with fire.
