By Dudley Hall, Founder of Kerygma Ventures
Revival doesn’t start with louder worship or longer meetings. It starts with a story.
The Gospel is not a formula to follow or a doctrine to debate — it’s the true story of everything: God created, man rebelled, Christ redeemed, and all things will be restored. This story doesn’t just inform us, it forms us. And when a generation begins to see their life as part of it? That’s when revival begins.
Many today — especially the young — are walking around with hollow hearts and tangled identities. They’ve been handed fragments: moralism, activism, deconstruction, even church attendance. But no framework. No plot. No Hero.
So when they hear that the Bible is not primarily a rulebook, but the story that makes sense of every other story — it stops them in their tracks. The setting, the conflict, the Hero, the resolution — it’s all there. And suddenly, they’re not just hearing theology. They’re locating themselves in the redemptive work of Christ.
It’s not about checking off spiritual boxes anymore. It’s about joining a movement to push back darkness.
It’s about knowing: “I have a story. But it only makes sense when it’s anchored to His.”
That’s where the spark of revival catches. Life comes back into religion. Life comes back into families, into purpose, into nations. Not because we engineered it — but because the Spirit breathes through the story of the Son.
Revival is not a moment. It’s a people awakened to the meaning of the Cross — and swept up into the mission of God.
So, preach the Gospel. Not just for salvation, but for awakening. Tell the story again and again — until dry bones rattle, prodigals run home, and a generation says, “That’s the story I was made for.”
– Dudley