Imagine miraculous healings so commonplace that physicians had to seek legal recourse because their profession was threatened. Imagine a pastor so popular that ecclesiastical superiors had to ban visitors. Now imagine that this same man, with witnesses standing by, engaged in terrifyingly real dialogues with departed souls seeking refuge in the world of the living. It all happened in one German village, and it could happen in yours.
The Awakening recounts the dramatic true story of the spiritual battle that shook one small town in the Black Forest when a young pastor named Johann Christoph Blumhard confronted the demons lurking behind the respectable faade of Christian piety, and called on God to intervene. The movement of repentance and renewal that followed reminded those present of the apostolic era: sick and disabled people were healed, mental illnesses vanished, stolen goods were returned, and broken marriages were restored. Zuendel's account, available here in English for the first time, provides a rare glimpse into how the cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil plays itself out in the lives of ordinary men and women. At the same time it offers quiet, bold assurance that Christ can indeed work as powerfully in our time as he did in his.
