As requested: An Asbury Revival chat thread
A couple of subscribers expressed interest in having a space here at Post Woke to discuss the Asbury Revival. So please feel free to chat in the comments!
BTW: Right on cue, a movie called Jesus Revolution has been released nationwide today. You can watch the trailer right here:
Hmm. A couple of "truthers" that I follow have been predicting that we will now be facing the rise of the Christian Right and it will simply be a pendulum shift from the current woke insanity to usher in just as much insanity under the guise of "morality". It appears they were correct. I will probably trigger a lot of people with my suspicions. Don't get me wrong, I am a very spiritual person and I think society desperately needs to get back on track with morals/ethics, but I think it is organized religions that tend to lead people down the wrong path - not always, but frequently. People think spirituality is a once-a-week thing. People need to develop discernment and follow their own, individual path in order to find true spirituality rather than follow a dogma of a group of people that may have a nefarious agenda. As we've seen over the past 3 years anything can become a "cult" - science, belief in an imaginary virus, new age movements, religions, celebrities.
If organizers of this new "spiritual" movement do not allow questioning, RUN!!! But I fear most people will just blindly follow this new "spiritual awakening" without question. Maybe people need to stop looking for an outside savior and realize that salvation starts from within. That sentiment is found throughout scripture.
Galatians 2:20 ESV: "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." The power of Christ is WITHIN us. the Kingdom of God is WITHIN us. We keep waiting and waiting and waiting for an outside force to save us when, just like they told us in the Wizard of Oz, we already have the power WITHIN ourselves. "The powers that be" don't want us to realize we have inner strength. But realizing our inner strength requires PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and it's easier for most people to be order followers.
So, I am cautiously optimistic that this rise of spirituality is organic. But since Hollywood is on board, I'm more cautious than optomistic.
My 2 cents.
My hope is that it spreads across the country, especially for the generation that has grown up since 9/11, The PATRIOT Act, years of lockdowns, iPhones, mandated vaccines, brutal wars against terrorism that have since turned into propaganda wars against Americans, they have turned out to be the most hopeless generation I think our country has ever seen. They don't want to marry; they don't want children; they don't believe in anything. One ray of hope for them is the Asbury Revival. If it spreads, I see it as the best chance these kids have for meaning in their lives. In addition, America has historically been fertile ground for spiritual awakenings ever since before the Revolution. I can't think of a moment for which a revival is better suited than this one.