What was being preached in the chapel when the Asbury “Revival” began?
A bizarre mix of accurate biblical interpretation blended with emotional anecdotes and downright zaniness.
“What emotion are you feeling right now?,” should be enough to tell you what the speaker’s intentions were.
The speaker at the chapel service at Asbury on the day the “revival” began is a young man by the name of Zach MeerKreebs, identified as the Envision Leadership Coordinator for the Christian and Missionary Alliance at Asbury University.
He was speaking from Romans 12:9-21 with a message titled, “Becoming Love in Action,” a series of messages on Romans 12, 13, and 14 presented by several different speakers over several chapels.
After reading Romans 12:9-21 he points out that these 13 verses contain 30 different commandments.
He then asks the students:
“What emotion are you feeling right now?” before giving examples of “radically poor love,” including his own abuse as a child and the way the church often fails at love.
He then presses home the point that most of the students there probably have had a bad experience with love. He offers to stay after chapel to pray with students who have had a bad experience with love: “You come up here and you experience His love.”
Pray with them about what? Repentance from their sins?
No. Not repentance. Not confession.
But rather, he will pray with them for God to alleviate “the weight of that perverted thing that one person called love” which wasn’t really love.
The really bizarre part?
He pauses to pray for the students, but gets distracted and says:
“There’s a screw on the…look at that! Shame the devil! He’s not going to get me with that.”
He puts the screw in his pocket, begins to pray, says “Jesus…” and then says:
“[Unintelligible] I put it, there’s a hole in my pants, and you just see my heinie.”
Listen to the clip here:
Watch the entire sermon here: