We often talk about the great revival that birthed our Fellowship as though it was just pastor Mitchell doing what he did that produced what we see. We fail to put it all in the context of the world as it was at the time of the Jesus People Revival. We were in the midst of social and political and cultural upheaval. I hesitate to call it revolution as some did back in the day. Student led protests against societal norms. A drug fueled revolt against the established order. Young people across the world were casting off restraints and striving for their utopian dreams. Back to the garden. And they failed. The political revolution never happened. The educational revolution never played out. Hippies finished their degrees and joined the mainstream. They are the baby boomers who are running everything today.
Today we are seeing the grandchildren of the 60s trying once again to forment revolution and upheaval. The rhetoric has changed, but the utopian dream is the same. Young people and student led riots trying to overturn society and history. And already I see the cracks in their front and the beginnings of a groundswell of popular push back against the drug fueled madness of this generation. I once thought that if society today got as bad as it was in the 1960s maybe God would move again. But it is different today and there is no guarantee that what God once did He will do the same thing again.
"Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43: 18-19
I wonder if, as God begins to move again, we will struggle to find and follow His purpose, as pastor Mitchell did, to follow what the Holy Spirit is doing today?
Watch and pray!
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