{"id":4045,"date":"2013-11-06T20:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:03:47","slug":"iceland-signs-of-revival-in-reykjavik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"ICELAND: Signs of Revival in Reykjavik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: God Reports<\/a>, November 1, 2013<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>It normally takes a lot to move Sk\u00fali Barker to tears. But what he witnessed [that] Sunday night in his country…<\/p>\n

He’ll be the first to tell you, that simply doesn’t happen in Iceland. “My wife was sobbing next to me,” Sk\u00fali said. “And I started to cry. It’s just amazing.”<\/p>\n

It started off as a few souls responding at the end of Franklin Graham’s gospel message and before he knew it, throngs were flooding the stage, elbow-to-elbow, hundreds of people packed in, aisles backed up. People\u00a0wanting\u00a0to meet Jesus. And willing to say that out loud. Pray that out loud.<\/p>\n

Sk\u00fali doesn’t want to be overdramatic, mind you, but he’s a native Icelander in his 40s now, and he’s seen the state of Icelandic people when it comes to talking about God or anything spiritual.<\/p>\n

“There’s a joke here that we are the ‘frozen chosen,’ ” Sk\u00fali said.\u00a0“But it’s really true. In Iceland, people don’t show their feelings.<\/p>\n

“So for Icelanders to come forward to receive Jesus …” Sk\u00fali’s voice went silent. His eyes turned red. “It’s just been a real fight here for Christians,” he said. “And\u00a0this\u00a0gives us hope.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read full story<\/a>, or see the original report from the Billy Graham Association<\/a>, with pictures. The meeting described above was part of a “Festival of Hope” which took place in late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: God Reports, November 1, 2013 It normally takes a lot to move Sk\u00fali Barker to tears. But what he witnessed [that] Sunday night in his country… He’ll be the first to tell you, that simply doesn’t happen in Iceland. “My wife was sobbing next to me,” Sk\u00fali said. “And I started to cry. It’s … Continue reading ICELAND: Signs of Revival in Reykjavik<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}