Revival is God’s work. If we think we can produce it by this or any other mechanical means, we are actually being manipulative, as many Christian orators have tried to be. But although revival does not follow mechanically upon faithful exposition of the Bible, God nevertheless does bless exposition. Characteristically, it is through such Bible preaching that times of renewal and reformation have come. James Montgomery Boice, Nehemiah: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: BakerBooks, 2005), 93.