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THE TURNING POINT FOR THE CHURCH | PAUL DAUGHERTY

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Pastor Paul declares the greatest revenge against darkness is revival, not violence.

Awake, O sleeper. The sermon opens in Ephesians 5 and keeps circling that same summons: when Jesus shows up, the lights come on and sleepy faith has to move. Paul Daugherty calls it a turning point, like a sleeping giant finally being shaken awake. Then he makes it personal. Lukewarm faith is the place where people want Jesus' benefits without surrender, witness, prayer, Scripture, or the cross. He talks to tired souls too, especially college students hungry for something cleaner than sin, partying, and cravings that never quite fill them. Fear sits right in the middle of the message. After violence, assassination, and the bloody microphone in Utah, he refuses to let terror become silence. The church, in his telling, has to keep speaking. That moves the sermon from public debate into plain spiritual conviction: carry truth into campuses, streets, workplaces, and normal conversations. This is not courage as a slogan. It looks like prayer gatherings, Bible studies, marketplace ministry, and ordinary believers asking God for favor with principals, superintendents, bosses, mayors, governors, and administrations. Revival starts close to home, then it gets loud. He prays for believers' voices to be amplified. The altar call stays simple: Jesus, use my life, bring yourself glory, and start revival here. The repeated burden is blunt enough to land: wake up, stand up, pray up, and stop letting fear or comfort decide what the church is allowed to say.

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A direct call to wake up, live plainly, and speak with courage.

The piece keeps its focus on Ephesians 5:14 and asks for one plain response: when Christ brings light, the church should wake up and live accordingly. The Pearl Harbor image, the campus debate, and the concern about public witness all press the same point.

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You want a sermon that tells you to wake up, rise up, and speak up.

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