How can revival come to "dead" churches?

Paul Washer explains in this video that many of the churches are dead in America because the individuals that are leading them are dead. We must return to the Gospel and to a doctrine that is often lost in the church – the doctrine of regeneration.

Throughout history, there have been times where individuals within the church believed themselves to be Christians simply because they were baptized. They made a decision and went through a rite, but their nature was not radically changed, there was not a new life, no fruit and there was no difference in their life. Preachers pointed them to Scripture and called them to believe and repent. Today is no different. We again need to faithfully preach the message of repentance.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) – “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Many of the churches are dead in America, I'll say the same thing Whitfield said, many of the churches are dead in America because the ones leading them are dead. We must return to the gospel of Jesus Christ and we must return to a doctrine that is always lost when the church is languishing. And that's the doctrine of regeneration. If you look at the time of Wesley and Whitfield, Hal Harris, Daniel Rowlands, what is going on? What happened there?

I'll tell you what happened. Everyone believed themselves to be Christian because they had been baptized, because they were somehow identified with the church. And here storms Whitfield out of nowhere saying, no, you must be born again. And they're saying we are born again. He said, no, you made a decision.

You went through a right, but your nature has not been radically changed. There's no new life. There's no new fruit. You are not born again. Now repent and believe the gospel.

The same thing must happen today in America, in the West.