Andy Smithyman helps you understand what makes spiritual revival happen and what it looks like (or sounds like) when it does. Instead of trying to define revival in words, Andy describes revival in terms of a symphony of music with many colourful and enriching parts adding the glory of the finished work of God. And like any work of musical art, we all discover something different.

“What if revival is this divine masterpiece that is made up of many different notes,” asks Andy Smithyman, “and depending upon our preferences and theological scales, we might listen to one or two notes which might be prayer or the preaching of the word but there are other notes being played as well. If you think about it, it has a life of its own.”

In ‘Revival’s Symphony’, Andy sets out to encourage people to re-think what revival is, re-imagining revival not as a one-off event, but as a process which is happening now and all the time, rather than in the past or a far off future event people are longing for. “There’s enough evidence in history,” he says, “to declare revival is more intricate than a simplistic ‘boxing off’ of the divine. It’s far broader.”

Andy shows how recurring notes in the symphony of revival include weakness, activism, prayer and obedience – all of which are unpacked and examined in the book. Andy’s assertion is that the divine element of revival is impossible to define in words. “The best way I can describe it,” he says, is love. It’s an expression of love between the creator and the creation and the creation and the creator.”