Three thousand people baptized in one day. That's not a strategy — that's a visitation. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket sits with a question most of us skip when we read Acts 2: not "how do we admire this?" but "what would it look like if this happened to us?"

Mike shows that revival isn't better programs or getting the culture right — it's the Holy Spirit making Jesus real, not theoretical, to a people and through them to a watching world. Drawing on Tim Keller's "five vitamins" for a living church (teaching, koinonia, worship, evangelism, and social concern), he makes a sobering point: a church can have all five and still be dead without the Spirit's presence animating them together.

The episode lands on a single foundation underneath everything else — a righteousness not our own. Mike draws on Richard Lovelace's observation that most professing Christians, even with sound theology, quietly shift the weight of their acceptance with God onto their own performance instead of resting entirely on Christ's finished work.

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