What was being preached in the chapel when the Asbury “Revival” began?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A bizarre mix of accurate biblical interpretation blended with emotional anecdotes and downright zaniness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What emotion are you feeling right now?,” should be enough to tell you what the speaker’s intentions were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After reading Romans 12:9-21 he points out that these 13 verses contain 30 different commandments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He then asks the students:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What emotion are you feeling right now?”<\/strong> before giving examples of “radically poor love,” including his own abuse as a child and the way the church often fails at love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pray with them about what? Repentance from their sins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n No. Not repentance. Not confession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The really bizarre part? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He pauses to pray for the students, but gets distracted and says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “There’s a screw on the…look at that! Shame the devil! He’s not going to get me with that.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He puts the screw in his pocket, begins to pray, says “Jesus…” and then says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “[Unintelligible] I put it, there’s a hole in my pants, and you just see my heinie.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to the clip here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n