Prophecy and the role of the Church in politics
Prophecy is one of the ways God communicates His will for nations, and the Church must not ignore this vital aspect of divine guidance.
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Skip to main contentProphecy is one of the ways God communicates His will for nations, and the Church must not ignore this vital aspect of divine guidance.
One Asbury Seminary professor recounted his brief visit to the university auditorium, citing a great sense of serenity. He could have stayed for hours, he said. But like the woman healed by the mere touch of Jesus’s garment, as he described it, he felt whole and left contentedly after 90 minutes.
The Dallas Mass Revival wasn’t the first time I’d stepped foot into a nontraditional church meeting, but it was easily the hottest.
The Christian Post talked with Brown about his book, including the factors he attributes to the drop in Christian belief among Americans, how support for Donald Trump may have hurt Evangelical churches, and if deconstructing one’s faith can be healthy or not.
It is true, that, for many reasons, people are leaving the Church. It is also true that many others are meeting Jesus powerfully. That’s because, what the world so desperately needs, we have in the fullness of the Gospel. Let us not be ashamed to live it and proclaim it.
Regular readers of The Christian Post are well aware of the moral failures at the highest levels of Evangelical leadership in the recent past. Formerly revered figures such as Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels and Mark Driscoll and earlier harbingers like Jim Bakker are the reminders that all is not well within the multifaceted movement that is American Evangelicalism.
The whole world, to the extent it benefits from America’s political and economic capital, can thank, at least partly, Mainline Protestantism. Its failures and decline of the last half century don’t negate its unprecedented accomplishments of the previous three centuries.