Do you think there will ever be another wave?
I ASSUME (you know how dangerous THAT IS) That there will be several (maybe many) more before the mature church in Eph 4 comes into existence. I ALSO expect that the future will NOT be particularly pleasant as things will become much darker as prophesied.
When I was YOUNG back in the 40s people who WERE NOT Christians still looked up to them and sensed that The Christians were on the "Right side of things". Then gradually the Christians became the ones who were "Delusional", fools, and misled.
But the time is coming when Christians, and Christian influence are seen as DANGEROUS to society (Hillary Clinton already hinted at that), and THEN the CHURCH will HAVE to come together, and the Religious "Tares" will find it expedient to leave for their own temporal survival. Who the "Tares" are, is likely to surprise many. The REAL Church ALWAYS flourishes SPIRITUALLY in times of persecution.
What did you think of the "Toronto Blessing" and Brownsville, etc.
The Charismatic outpouring (~1964 - ~1978 or so) was a WORLD WIDE time of refreshing - revival. Toronto, and Brownsville, and a bunch of other smaller revivals were strictly LOCAL occurrences that I didn't pay much attention to, and "WoF" was an unfortunate "Rabbit trail" that taught "METHODS" - i.e. "If you do This, God will be FORCED to do that". The only thing missing was "FAITH". All they had was buckets of PRESUMPTION.
Dad Hagan (Former Assembly of God) had three BASIC Scriptures that He taught:
What IS FAITH?: Heb 11:1
How does FAITH COME?: Romans 10:17
How do you APPLY Faith?: Mark 11:22-24
Taken at the basic level, Hagan taught the absolute TRUTH - but as Derek Prince used to say: "I don't fear those that ATTACK me at all, but the one that really SCARE me are my imitators".
Hobart freeman (Faith Fellowship, Warsaw Indiana) took WoF farther than ANYBODY else, and
would not allow any medical treatments, drugs, or Insurance of any kind in his congregation. The death toll in his congregation was well over 100 by the time he died of a simple treatable infection - "that God had healed him of by faith". There were also notable miracles that happened there in the '70s
Anyway, it was nice to finally have a pleasant conversation with you. And thanks for the information.
Revivals always produce a "Mixed bag" of results. The Pentecostal revival spawned many denominational groups, the two largest orthodox groups being the AG (Presently at 70,000,000 world wide - 3,000000 in the U.S.), and the COGIC (8,800,000 world wide, 5,000,000 in the U.S.) among primarily Black folks.
But there was also the "Oneness" hyperlegalistic McAlister bunch that became the UPCI (United Pentecostal Church International 5,000,000 members) and has some serious theological issues. The Assembly of God tossed 'em in 1916 by coming out as an officially TRINITARIAN denomination).
The Charismatic outpouring, however DID NOT "Denominationalize" like the Pentecostal revival did, and Charismatic churches tend to remain independant. I beliong to the Assemblies of God, as a member in good standing.
But the Assemblies of God doesn't define me theologically. I don't really CARE what their "Official line" is. but I do very much appreciate their MISSIONARY PROGRAM (the most productive in the World), so a good place to be (although their choice of music (Soft Rock 7-11 stuff) drives me straight up the wall).