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Una Apelación Urgente
(The Urgent Appeal, Spanish Translation) Adobe PDF Format

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AN URGENT APPEAL
has been drafted in partnership with:

and

America's National Prayer Committee

Paul Revere is famous in American history because he brought the urgent message to the colonists: "The British are coming!" Like Revere, we, the writers of this document, bring another urgent appeal to you. The situation is not the same but the urgency is.

Surely no one looking at the New Testament in contrast with much of the American Church can be fully pleased with what they observe. Many churches in America are in trouble. By almost any standard that is used to measure biblical conformity, the American Church is found wanting. The church continues to decrease in size. It makes relatively little difference in the society. Contrasts in the lifestyle of a Christian as compared to a non-believer are often negligible. Christ is not glorified, as He deserves to be. Something must happen to change this, and only God can do it. The times are URGENT for the Church in America. Something must be done.

As members of the drafting committee, we believe, as do hundreds of others, that it is urgent that Christian leaders unite in consensus and collaboration on the biblical nature and hope for corporate revival. This conviction is woven throughout AN URGENT APPEAL. Our prayer is that thousands of Christian leaders will explore and then embrace the message of this Appeal, by signing the Declaration of Intent, which you will find in this document. The appeal is for pastors and leaders to be not only for corporate revival but to be about it—men and women who understand that the condition of the church is that desperate and who will be like the widow in the scripture, those who give the Lord no rest until He sends this needed revival.

We encourage you to download the complete text of this document so that you can disseminate it to others. Also, you will find at this website regular updates regarding future plans and activities surrounding AN URGENT APPEAL.

A document entitled "The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration" has been included as an appendix to this document. What this widely acclaimed treatise did for collaboration and consensus on evangelism, we believe An Urgent Appeal will do for revival. Hundreds of evangelical leaders from differing denominations, ministries, and Christian theologies, joined together to say what they believe the Gospel is. We include this because it is important to agree on what we are revived for. A faulty Gospel will always foster a faulty revival.

AN URGENT APPEAL moves us beyond empty rhetoric about revival. It takes us to new levels of unity and action about revival. Our prayer is that, through the ongoing conversations it stirs up among leaders, all of us may become more fully engaged with Jesus Christ and with the magnificent implications of His supremacy over all things.