Folks, we’re living in days that make my heart leap, and my knees hit the ground. Across Scotland, from Carmyle to Edinburgh, a Quiet Revival is stirring. Young people ~ Gen Z, hungry for purpose ~ are packing churches, underlining their Bibles, and stepping into baptismal waters. The Word of God is alive, sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12, NKJV), and the Holy Spirit is piercing the hearts of those weary of TikTok’s noise. This digital clamour and culture’s empty promises, of relativism and godless living, drown out truth, dictating how you’re supposed to think and live. Yet, Jesus is calling Gen Z to Himself, and the revival is genuine!
Bible sales are up 87% since 2019, phone apps like YouVersion are topping 500 million downloads, and urban congregations report in a 12% surge in young adult baptisms. This is certainly not a fad that’s going about; it’s the Spirit of God drawing souls to the unchanging truth of Jesus Christ (John 6:44). Yet, even as we rejoice, a battle rages, a subtle, demonic ideology seeks to quench this move of God. Let’s open the Scriptures, stand firm, and encourage one another to hold fast.
Look at Acts 2:47 “And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” That’s what we’re seeing, young folks, battered by pandemics and scepticism, seeing through the lies of politicians, they are finding hope in the Gospel. In one vibrant church, a recent news report showed hundreds cramming in, standing room only, not for a concert but for Jesus. A 17-year-old, wrestling with her dad’s cancer, found peace in Christ and made her faith public.
Fifty others this year alone came through social media, not chasing trends but truth. This is Psalm 119:105 in action: “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The Lord is building His Church, and the gates of hell won’t prevail (Matthew 16:18). Brothers and sisters, if you’re in a fellowship seeing this growth, keep preaching the Word in season and out (2 Timothy 4:2) if you are attending a fellowship seeing this growth, keep sharing the Gospel in ways that reach hearts (Acts 2:6). Your faithfulness ~ heart to heart ~ is why Gen Z is trading algorithms for altars.
But let’s not be naive. The enemy prowls, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). A voice in Scotland, loud in that same news report, calls this revival “targeting” of youth, accusing biblical faith of clashing with laws like the Equality Act.
It’s the Humanist Society, a group pushing a godless vision, assisted dying, abortion on demand, redefining marriage and identity, secularizing schools, and stripping faith from public life.
Sadly, they are the nation’s top wedding providers now, outpacing churches with ceremonies that honour man, not God. Their mission sounds compassionate, reason, rights, empathy, but it swaps the Creator for the creature (Romans 1:25). It is a sick demonic ideology, subtle as the serpent in Eden, whispering that Jesus is outdated, that the Bible’s truth must bend to culture.
They claim our preaching manipulates; I say it’s the Spirit convicting. They call our stand on life, marriage, and faith divisive; I say it’s obedience to the One who is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
Open your Bibles to John 3:20 “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.” That’s why humanism fights to quench the Spirit’s work (1 Thessalonians 5:19).
- Assisted dying? It denies God’s sovereignty over life (Psalm 139:16).
- Abortion? It silences the voiceless, fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14).
- Redefining marriage and identity? It rejects God’s design from Genesis 2:24.
- Secular education and abolishing faith’s voice?
It’s a push to silence the Gospel, just as they tried in Acts 4:18, but Peter and John answered, “We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). Folks, don’t be swayed by this ideology. It offers sand; Christ offers the Rock (Matthew 7:24).
To you in churches like that one in Carmyle, Home Church, seeing Gen Z flood in, hear this: stay anchored in the Word.
Don’t let humanist pressure dilute your witness. Keep welcoming all, sinners like us, saved by grace, but hold fast to biblical truth on life, marriage, and faith. Your love must be bold, not bending to culture’s demands but shining Christ’s light.
Train those young believers, as Paul urged Timothy (2 Timothy 2:2), to teach others also. The revival’s real, 5-7% yearly growth in evangelical churches, record crowds at events like Spring Harvest.
But it’s fragile if we compromise. Ephesians 6:13 calls us: “Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
Folks, take a stand! Pray for those swayed by humanism, that their eyes open to Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Share the Gospel with grace and truth. Celebrate every young heart turning to the Cross.
The Lord’s doing a new thing (Isaiah 43:19), and you are part of it. Keep your eyes on Him, your hands on the plough, and your heart in the Word. The harvest is plentiful, and the labourers are rising, because Jesus is Lord, and His Spirit will not be quenched.
In His love