Repair the Broken Altar
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. ~ 1 Kings 18:30 One of the greatest tragedies in the life of a Christian is this: there are a lot of broken altars, and instead of repairing the broken altars, we are building new ones and expecting the fire of the Lord to fall upon the new altar. The truth is that the fire of God will not fall upon the new altar when there are broken altars, and we might as well end up with another broken altar. The case study for today is one of the most amazing stories in the Bible: The story of how the prophet Elijah turned the whole of Isreal to God in one day, or we could call it how he had a reformation (1 Kings 18:20-40). Notice that before the prophet called upon the name of the Lord God, he repaired the broken altar. The Lord answered him by fire. When the people saw these two things happened: 1) they fell on their faces; and said, “The