The Threefold Strategy of Darkness against Revival

Richard Lovelace:

The strategy of darkness against revival is threefold:

(1) to destroy the work either by persecution or by accusation which will discredit it and limit its growth,

(2) to infiltrate the work and reinforce its defects in order to provide more evidence for accusation, and

(3) to inspire counterfeit revival which may deceive the elect and further confuse and alienate the onlooking world.

—Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal (IVP, 1979), 257.