Revival - Imperfect Vessels With Perfect Results

To many people who want revival, they often idolize those who lead them. However even a close study of the Bible shows us that the people God uses are hardly perfect. Abraham lied about his wife being his sister twice, Moses killed an Egyptian, David committed adultery and had a man murdered to cover the pregnancy from his unfaithfulness. And the leader of the early church and writer of 2/3 of the New Testament, Saul was guilty of killing Christians.
As we will see more in this lesson, men God used in revivals were imperfect and at odds with other men God used to shepherd revivals.
Charles Spurgeon rightly noted that it wasn't their personalities that God anointed:
"The Reformation was due not so much to the fact that Luther was earnest, Calvin learned, Zwingli brave, and Knox indefatigable as to this - old truth was brought to the front and to the poor the Gospel was preached. Had it not been for the doctrines which they taught, their zeal for holiness and their self-sacrifice, their ecclesiastical improvements would have been of no avail. The power lay not in Luther’s hammer and nails, but in the truth of those theses which he fastened up in the sight of all men."
Spurgeon correctly pointed out that the Reformers personalities weren’t the backbone of the movement, rather it was the Godly doctrines they highlighted. And we must not get bogged down today with the differences we have with our leaders today. If we want to see another Great Awakening we must coalesce around the cardinal doctrines of the faith. We may see an initial agreement based on the excitement of the fire, but it will be doused with fighting over our inherent differences.