If the Jesus Freaks/People were true followers how did we get the Gen Xers that seemed not to believe or follow, that then brought us the Millennials that truly don't believe?
Of course there is a old saying "God has no Grandchildren." while this is true, one would hope the quality of ones discipleship would lead one's children into the Faith. Believe me this issue is very disturbing to me. Some of my longest friends out of the Jesus People movement have children and grandchildren who have no interest in God at all.
Yes, I find it quite baffling. The parents and grandparents were so holier-than-thou and the kids and grandkids are so anti-christian. Maybe it was the holier-than-thou they wanted no part of and went the opposite way.
I have no answer for you. This question has kept me awake many nights for the better part of a decade. Dr. Stott may have indeed been absolutely correct.
"Will the Jesus movement lead to . . . . . . . ?" someone asked in this essay
it is about time we all realized that ALL movements become compromised and corrupted.
with every movement, and I was part of the charismatic renewal of the late 1970's, there is an immense amount of flesh ie carnal nonsense, superstition, and simple lording it over others as pagans do attached to the work of God
and even one of my most beloved mentors at that time said that there was a lot of rot in the charismatic movemet even from the outset.
Moreover my pastor put the nail in the coffin of such things when he got up and told his church (I had already left it by then but friends told me) that their trouble was that they did not love.
A true discernment but he had NO idea what such signified and simply invoked the pelagian heresy, "SO LET'S LOVE"
you can keep your movements. all of them, even the Protestant Reformation which IMO was a carnal response to a true discernment of heresy in the catholic church of the time.
just look at the hate. I a m a history buff. I have
and as for memberhip in any movement these days, I am not saved by being in the right crowd, but by having a one on one personal dialogue with the Spirit of Christ.
and having that i no longer seek "revival"
but, being led to repent after having it out with the Lord the Spirit, losing the debate and repenting of something, maybe i am being revived.
but with no hysterics in tents meeting halls or even open air stadia
they all stink of flesh, are given to empty talk and solve nothing; and that goes for "church militant" talk which is the most patent of fantical abuse of any christian terminology i have ever encountered.
For example my loveless church that had no clue what to do about being in such a state was heavily into "church militant " so clearly, not loving God nor each other, they were abusing the talk flagrantly.
If the Jesus Freaks/People were true followers how did we get the Gen Xers that seemed not to believe or follow, that then brought us the Millennials that truly don't believe?
Of course there is a old saying "God has no Grandchildren." while this is true, one would hope the quality of ones discipleship would lead one's children into the Faith. Believe me this issue is very disturbing to me. Some of my longest friends out of the Jesus People movement have children and grandchildren who have no interest in God at all.
Yes, I find it quite baffling. The parents and grandparents were so holier-than-thou and the kids and grandkids are so anti-christian. Maybe it was the holier-than-thou they wanted no part of and went the opposite way.
They should have known better. They rebelled because their parents and Grandparents were holier than thou and they as a result became Hippies....
I have no answer for you. This question has kept me awake many nights for the better part of a decade. Dr. Stott may have indeed been absolutely correct.
"Will the Jesus movement lead to . . . . . . . ?" someone asked in this essay
it is about time we all realized that ALL movements become compromised and corrupted.
with every movement, and I was part of the charismatic renewal of the late 1970's, there is an immense amount of flesh ie carnal nonsense, superstition, and simple lording it over others as pagans do attached to the work of God
and even one of my most beloved mentors at that time said that there was a lot of rot in the charismatic movemet even from the outset.
Moreover my pastor put the nail in the coffin of such things when he got up and told his church (I had already left it by then but friends told me) that their trouble was that they did not love.
A true discernment but he had NO idea what such signified and simply invoked the pelagian heresy, "SO LET'S LOVE"
you can keep your movements. all of them, even the Protestant Reformation which IMO was a carnal response to a true discernment of heresy in the catholic church of the time.
just look at the hate. I a m a history buff. I have
and as for memberhip in any movement these days, I am not saved by being in the right crowd, but by having a one on one personal dialogue with the Spirit of Christ.
and having that i no longer seek "revival"
but, being led to repent after having it out with the Lord the Spirit, losing the debate and repenting of something, maybe i am being revived.
but with no hysterics in tents meeting halls or even open air stadia
they all stink of flesh, are given to empty talk and solve nothing; and that goes for "church militant" talk which is the most patent of fantical abuse of any christian terminology i have ever encountered.
For example my loveless church that had no clue what to do about being in such a state was heavily into "church militant " so clearly, not loving God nor each other, they were abusing the talk flagrantly.
join a revival or movement? thanks but no thnaks