A Christian university’s weekly chapel service in Wilmore, Kentucky, has turned into an impromptu nonstop prayer meeting over the last week, drawing visitors from across the country, attracting millions of views on social media and fueling talk of a nationwide religious revival.
A Christian university’s weekly chapel service in Wilmore, Kentucky, has turned into an impromptu nonstop prayer meeting over the past week, drawing visitors from across the country, attracting millions of views on social media and fueling talk of a nationwide religious revival.
Asbury University was the catalyst for a similar wave of campus-based religious fervor in February 1970, when another extended prayer meeting in Wilmore captured the attention of Christian students and faculty nationwide. Mr. Whitworth confirmed what many of the students from other parts of the country have told reporters covering the event in recent days. “It has absolutely been social media that is the mechanism that people found out about this,” he told NBC News.Anna Lowe, managing editor of the school’s Collegian newspaper, wrote on Wednesday that “God is using this revival in incredible ways. There is reconciliation, confession and soulful worship.
One of those visitors is the Rev. Robby Gallaty, senior pastor at Long Hollow Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. “These young people are feeling in their life this spiritual vacuum, somewhat of an emptiness in the society they’re in and a real need for hope,” Mr. Wilson said. “The mental health crisis in this generation is significant. The uncertainty of the times, the feeling of lostness, in a world of 8 billion people, who are they, in the midst of it, the desire for purpose. I think all of these are driving a generation to look beyond themselves for the answer.
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