by Former Vice President Mike Pence took to social media Friday to share how his experience at Asbury College more than four decades ago moved him spiritually, and the evangelical service at the central college Kentucky called “Asbury revival” into its tenth straight day. worship
“As a college student, I also traveled to Asbury in 1978 for a Christian music festival. It was not like hearing the gospel for the first time,” Pence wrote in a tweet. “I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior and my life was never the same.”
Pence, who was baptized and raised in a Roman Catholic parish, said he was “very emotional” by the “revival that’s going on at the school right now” and suggested it would “change lives forever” .
Asbury also played a role in promoting Pence as vice president under former President Donald Trump. Pence, who has given many hints that he might enter the presidential race in 2024, shared some of his memories in another tweet, saying that Asbury’s ministry reminded him that “God is still at work even when it doesn’t seem like him !”
AFTER ASBURY’ REVIEW MARATHON INTO 10TH DAY, SIMILAR SERVICES HAVE GROWN ON OTHER COLLEGE CAMPUSES
The usual morning service on February 8 at Asbury University – a small private Christian university, in Wilmore, Kentucky – is celebrating non-stop for 10 days when many of its participants are calling “revival.”
Christians of many faith traditions attended the church service in Asbury. The Fr. Norman Fischer – a Catholic priest in Lexington, Kentucky – reportedly said to the Catholic publication Our Sunday Visitor that the continuous worship service was “pure” and “definitely God, definitely the Holy Spirit.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club on November 30, 2021 in Washington. (Draw Anger/Getty Images)
The movement started after students refused to leave after a church service last Wednesday, and services have since grown to pack the room with worshipers from all over the country, according to Christianity Today.
The “Asbury Revival,” as it came to be known, represents a widely reported worship event that took place decades ago.
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A revival took place at the same university in 1970 in Hughes Hall. The service started inside the campus chapel before more and more students arrived worship, pray and sing over a period of 144 consecutive hours.
Students participate in a chapel service at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, where worshipers are pouring in from across the country. (Asbury University)
I Evangelical Protestant ChristianityA “revival” is a sudden and enthusiastic restoration of religious energy among a church, town, or larger geographic region.
The Asbury Revival has had cascading effects and communities elsewhere in the United States are involved in marathon worship.
Students at Samford University in Alabama are now entering their fourth consecutive day of prayer.
Samford’s service, held in Reid Chapel, began as usual before Thursday classes were canceled due to the weather.
Worshipers raise their hands during a service at the Asbury University chapel in Wilmore, Kentucky. (Asbury University)
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The people of the Church stayed and continued with the meeting until it began to be compared to the Asbury event.
“For over seven hours, students gathered in Reid (Wednesday) and well into the morning worshiping, praying, sharing testimonies and reading Scripture,” said the executive director of the Samford Ministry Training Institute. , Kevin Blackwell. the Alabama Baptist.
Timothy HJ Nerozzi of Fox News contributed to this article.
