Asbury Revival, 1970: “Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?”

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from this video:

A Revival Account: Asbury 1970

Dennis Kinlaw, President of Asbury College (1970) recalls this amazing event.

“A format had been developed. It started in that opening chapel. A student would give his witness. He would tell about how God was dealing with him about sin in his life. He’d make his confession. And then he would tell how God had brought forgiveness to him, and restoration. Or how the need of his heart had been met—the spiritual need.

As he would speak, there would be somebody in the audience who would say, ‘that’s like me.’ And then that person would come under conviction and come forward and kneel at the altar.

So a pattern had been developed of testimony, of sharing. Then after the testimony, prayer, and after the prayer, singing and praise and adoration. And then more witnessing, sharing how God had met human need.”

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“I suppose I had been there about an hour when a young lady came up…and she walked back and knelt side of the seat where I was sitting, and looked up at me and said:

‘Dr. Kinlaw, may I talk with you?’

I said, ‘why yes.’

She said, ‘I need help…. I’m a liar’ [Dr. Kinlaw breaks up with emotion] Excuse me. Forgive me for a minute.

She said, ‘I lie so much, I don’t even know when I’m lying. I am a liar. Now what do I do?’

Well I sat there for a moment or two, and I had never said this to anybody else, but I looked at her and I said, ‘why don’t you start back to the last person you remember that you lied to. Confess it to that person, and ask him or her to forgive you.’

‘Oh,’ she said, ‘that would kill me.’

I said, ‘no, it would probably cure you.’

Three days later, she came to me radiant, and she said, ‘Dr. Kinlaw, I’m free.’

I said, ‘what do you mean, ‘you’re free.?’

She said, ‘I just hit my 34th person and I’m free [Kinlaw raises both hands in the air in the way she probably had]!’

Now that was the kind of thing that was taking place.”

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“And at night, when the telephone rates were cheaper, you’d see them lined up by the telephones at the dormitories ready to call their friends or family….”

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“The emphasis was never upon the gifts of the Spirit. The emphasis was upon sin; the need for repentance; the need for restitution; the need for repairing relationships, human being to human being; and the need for bringing a life into obedience to the highest and the best.”

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