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Elevation Church’s revival is seeing some theological controversy. An apologist and blogger is claiming that Matt Chandler’s sermon was censored during a rebroadcast.

Chandler, a Reformed evangelical pastor, spoke as a guest speaker at Elevation last Friday, the third night of the Code Orange Revival. But Chris Rosebrough, blogger and host of Fighting for the Faith, told The Christian Post that Chandler’s sermon was never rebroadcast afterwards like the other speakers’ talks were.

Elevation Church is in the midst of its 12-night revival in Charlotte, N.C. Each night, the worship time and speakers' sermons are rebroadcast on the Elevation Network at 10:12 p.m. and 3:12 a.m. EST. more >>

Churches need to stop making excuses and get back to reaching the lost, popular pastor Ed Young said in his challenge to thousands of Christians.

Fresh off his 24-hour bed-in to promote his new book, Sexperiment, Young spoke to crowds at the Code Orange Revival in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday night, stressing the need to rescue those who don’t know Jesus Christ.

“People are drowning without the Lord,” said Young, whose corneas and face were burned from sitting on the roof of Fellowship Church for the bed-in on Friday. more >>

God does not believe in expiration dates and He can make the impossible, possible, said the founder of an anti-human trafficking organization at the Code Orange revival at Elevation Church.

Christine Caine, founder of The A21 Campaign and a member of the leadership team at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, spoke to more than 2,500 people at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based megachurch’s revival on Saturday night. She started off her talk by showing a video of a teenager asking viewers to play a game with him by finding everything in their parent’s house that is expired. He said he would win because “my parents don’t believe in an expiration date.”

The video continues with the boy holding up food products and reading off the expiration dates, many of them years past their recommended date. more >>

A young evangelical pastor urged Elevation Church attendees to get past their church and their popular pastor, Steven Furtick, and “get underneath” to what God is doing.

“If we can’t get there, we’re going to be at a superficial plane,” Matt Chandler, lead pastor of the Village Church in Highland Village, Texas, told over 2,500 people at the Code Orange Revival in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.

As the third speaker at the 12-night revival, Chandler went into the event to “proclaim the majesty of Jesus” to thousands at Elevation Church and thousands more watching on the Web and TV. more >>

Night two of Elevation Church’s “Holy Ghost, old-school revival” began Thursday night with the theme of God’s faithfulness.

Jentezen Franklin, senior pastor of Free Chapel in Gainesville, Ga., and Free Chapel OC in Irvine, Calif., spoke to audiences on location in Charlotte, N.C., and via Web streaming as the second speaker for the 12-day Code Orange Revival.

He said he had prepared a sermon, but after the time of worship he decided to scrap it to talk about God’s faithfulness. “You’ve been messing with me tonight,” he told crowds. more >>

“God specializes in using idiots,” LifeChurch.tv pastor Craig Groeschel told thousands of people as he kicked off a 12-night revival on Wednesday.

Speaking to a full house at Elevation Church in Charlotte, N.C., as well as a live Web and TV audience, Groeschel challenged Christians to go from “kind of believing in God” to becoming "idiots" for Christ.

“There are people … [who] are just too churchy. You just kind of believe in God and that’s it. You just always believed in God,” he said as the visiting speaker at the Code Orange Revival. “You need to … not just believe and live as if He doesn’t exist but … call on Him to be everything, not just an add-on to your life.” more >>