What should revival look like in our own day? Are you experiencing it?

Is it necessary even to ask the question I pose? Why would revival in our own day be different than in the Scriptures, or throughout history? Here's what I'd hope to see in my own church:

1) A constant flow of souls being saved and added to the Body.

2) The power of God available as needed.

3) Lives being changed.

4) Every meeting the leadership comes up with, attended in force.

5) Sins regularly being confessed.

6) Offerings are more than enough.

7) Vision embraces an entire city or region.

8) Church is meeting somewhere every day of the week.

9) Young people serious about the things of God, and are not ashamed to bring their friends.

Dream on, you say. But I speak of things that have always been in revivals, and should be the norm for believing assemblies.

How would that same revival affect your own life, and mine? Try out this list:

1) Every spare moment, we're in the Word and Prayer.

2) TV and other media used only in exceptional times or emergencies.

3) We're eating only what we need, and what is healthy. Our bodies matter.

4) We can't keep our mouth shut about Jesus. Our family and neighborhood are saturated with Good News.

And so on and on. The normal Christian life, Watchman Nee called it. Normal from God's viewpoint.

So why is the word "revival" mentioned in Scripture so scarcely? Jesus assumed we would follow Him, take up His cross, stay constantly attached to Him through His Spirit. Revival is not stressed because crucifixion and the resurrected life is. We weren't supposed to fall away and need reviving. Dire warnings are offered to those who play this game.