There is always a need for a revival movement alongside the institutional church. Like houses, institutions require constant maintenance and repair. Sometimes they simply need to be abandoned, as when they suck so much cost into their repair that there is neither money nor energy for those who live in them to do what the institutions had been set up to do in the first place. A revival movement can exist inside an institution, but it will often live parallel to it, sometimes supporting and sometimes opposing it. And sometimes the reform movement will necessarily dismantle the institution and spring to life in new institutions. We are witnessing this in the west in our day as mainline denominations so undercut orthodoxy and orthopraxy that they are no longer Christian institutions, while orthodox movements continue and reform into new institutions living faithfully under the Word of God. I have been looking at the notion of a ‘new covenant’ in Scripture in recent blog posts. H