Depending on who you talk to, there have been anywhere between two and four Great Awakenings in the United States. I am one of those that say two, Wikipedia and others say four. I don’t tend to believe that the third and fourth count. That’s why the title says 5/3, I’m not really interested in determining the numbers of Great Awakenings in the US.

Still, as I had mentioned on the Rocky Mountain Religious Ride, I believe that a new awakening of Christians will come soon. What does that mean? I think it means a time when many in the US will be looking to God and freely talking about Him in our day to day lives. I do not believe it will be some golden age of prosperity for the US, but a great time for Christianity. I believe many will come to know Him in a meaningful way and act on the faith they receive.

More tomorrow when I have time. Before I go, though, here are a few things that I believe that this great awakening is NOT:

It is not the megachurches movement.
It will not come as a result of the Church of the English Majors (aka Emergent Church)
It will not come from the Restoration Movement or the churches of Christ as they exist now.
It will not be the rise of a denomination or a group of denominations.
It will not be the resurgence of the house church movement.

It will involve technology somehow. It will be honest and straightforward. It will not rely on the historical framework for hermeneutics as mentioned in Reading the Bible for All Its Worth. It will be a different hermeneutic altogether. It will show up as quickly as YouTube did. Our children are going to love it.

More later.