As Christians ponder whether America is experiencing revival, apologist Frank Turek is digging a bit deeper, noting it’s essential people don’t just get “spiritual renewal but [that] they become disciples.”
He also addressed some of the confusion and date-setting that sometimes arises in theological discussions about the end times.
“How do you make disciples? How do you make people that actually follow Jesus — not just people that say, ‘I got fire insurance, I’m going to heaven?’” he said. “Jesus didn’t say, ‘Come make believers.’ He said, ‘Come make disciples.’ And that means carrying your cross, and doing things that you might not normally want to do. It means denying yourself and following Him, and that’s hard.”
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With so much spiritual activity underway, Turek was asked whether it’s possible for both chaos and renewal to occur in America at the same time. This conversation gets especially interesting when it comes to speculation about the end times.
“I would venture to say that no one knows when Jesus is coming back, and my source on that is Jesus,” he said. “When people keep saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I know He’s coming back. Oh, things are getting worse. It’s going to happen’ … I say, ‘Hold, hold, hold on. Jesus said no one knows the day, the hour, the times, nor the season. I’m coming like a thief in the night.’”
Turek’s point is that no one knows when Jesus will return, and he believes that end-times specifics are “veiled for a reason.”
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