Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours

For the past two weeks, tens of thousands of visitors have poured into that Kentucky chapel to experience what Turner felt that day. (On Saturday alone, according to a university spokesperson, the crowd numbered between 15,000 and 20,000.) Some are driving overnight from states like South Carolina and Oklahoma. Others are flying in from Canada and Singapore to wait in line for hours sometimes in the rain or snow just to stand next to people they share nothing in common with except for a single conviction: God is visiting a two-stoplight town in Kentucky.

Inside sounds like a concert, but feels more like a campfire. Voices rise and fall in unison to soft guitar and piano music, and everyone knows the words: Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You re the only one. In between the songs and prepared sermons, pastors hand the mics over to teenagers, who flood the altar to share stories of broken hearts and anxiety. The crowd claps at every tale of being saved from torn ligaments, drug addictions, crises of faith. 

via www.thefp.com

Well, maybe this will catch on and it probably wouldn’t be a bad thing if it did.