在我们结束对复兴的默想前，最后一个必须提出来的重要问题是：我们在历史的这一刻，对属灵大觉醒的需要有多大？我认为这对大部分国家来说都是相当大的。如果复兴是圣灵的特别行动，是由掌握主权的神赐给教会的，那么神最可能在甚么时候显出这种特别的作为？不是在有特别需要的时候吗？我认为我们现在就是处于这样的时代。如果说我对当代基督教有甚么了解的话，那就是我确信目前众教会对复兴的需要不但大，而且是燃眉之急。

以传福音这事为例，教会就算付出了所有的努力，都只能接触到社会很少部分的人，这应该是我们最当关注的问题。已经信主的人应该清楚的意识到还有很多人没有接触过福音。我们付出很大的努力，花费很多的金钱在布道事工上，这是正确的，但可惜结果却与我们内心的期盼有很大距离。当然，我们会为那些愿意接受基督的人献上感恩，但与人口相比，这些数字只不过是沧海一粟，这实在是我们应该加以关注的事实。

复兴会改变这一切。虽然正如我们所看到的，复兴和布道不同，但是你可以肯定，当复兴来临时，未信的人会涌进教堂，他们不是因人的劝说而来，他们是被天堂的磁力所吸引。

An important and final question which we must look at before we close our meditations on revival is this: How great is our need at this moment in history for a great spiritual awakening? I would say that in most countries of the world it is very great. If revival is an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon the Church by a sovereign God, then when is God most likely to demonstrate this extraordinary work? Is it not at a time of extraordinary need? Such a time, I suggest, is upon us now. If I understand contemporary Christianity at all, then it is my conviction that the need for revival is not only great but urgent and desperate.

Take, for example, the issue of evangelism. It should be a matter of the deepest concern that with all its evangelistic efforts the Church is only touching a small proportion of the community. The fact that some are being converted should not obscure the fact that great masses of people remain unreached. We expend great effort and spend large sums of money on evangelistic crusades, which is right, but the results are rarely what deep down in our hearts we long for. We are thankful, of course, for those who are being won to Christ but surely it must concern us that in proportion to the population the results are but a drop in a bucket.

Revival would change all that. Although revival, as we saw, is different from evangelism, you can be sure that when revival comes the unconverted will crowd into the churches, drawn not by human persuasion but by the magnetism of heaven.