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The 5/3 Awakening
Author: John13 Jul
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.
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5 Responses for "The 5/3 Awakening"
That’s pretty specific Pink. You smokn’ sompton that I should be trying? I’m not saying the HS hasn’t told you something or that your not a prophet but usually when people do that it turns out a little freaky/scary.
Not too specific and yeah, it’s flaky. You really want nutty? I probably won’t like it when it arrives.
I sketch it in more of a negative space type of way. I know what it isn’t. It isn’t something that already exists. Not the historical hermeneutic (how can we know how the 1st century people heard the message 20 centuries later?) Not the Megachurch trend. Not even recent church of Christ unity efforts.
As to what it will look like (as opposed to what it won’t) I don’t know. If I did, I’d be doing it.
Biblepedia?
Yahwoo?
Godle?
ttk
One of the things that I see happening could be seen as more of a reaction against the revivalism of the past. In reformed denominations there is a movement toward a higher church form of worship and a return to instilling more meaning to the sacraments. That is, emphasis on God actually doing something in Baptism and that the Lord’s Supper being a weekly event which is open to Covenant children.
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