Here’s the fourth of six posts from Peterson’s Practice Resurrection on revivalism and grieving the Spirit:

In some places in the church there is considerable complaint about the absence of the Spirit. These critics are confident that they know what the presence of the Spirit should look like and are loud in protesting his alleged absence. They are also ready with strategies to recruit the Spirit. . . . Some have suggested that this habit and protesting the absence of the Spirit and working up a revival sweat may very well be one more form of “grieving the Holy Spirit of God” (Markus Barth, The Broken Wall).