My father is almost fifty-one years old and grew up in a time in this country when there was a great spiritual awakening and a sensitivity to the things that pertained to God and it seemed like w

My dad grew up when the season for God was just right, the nation had just come through a Great War and people had prayed for years for God’s mercy to move on this nation. It sparked a great move of God’s Spirit and that move lasted over two decades that put this nation on the map as a spiritual giant. “The historian Emerson Davis reflected thus on the half century which had just elapsed: "There has been . . . a more perfect development of the benevolent spirit of the gospel in the souls of men than has been known at any previous time since the age of the apostles” (Olmstead, pg. 347).” We have come to time now that we are poised for another great season of awakening and a mighty move of the spirit. This is the man that taught me how to believe in the time when he grew up with the spiritual awakening. He also taught me faith, patience, and understanding of the word and to not let life and all its rules get in the way of my beliefs because I am the one that will answer to God in the end.

ith religion, it didn’t matter what you believed there was a sacredness to it. For example in the Protestant religion they communed with God in their daily lives, either through their own understanding of the Bible or through experience with the Holy Spirit, and therefore needed no special rituals to secure or strengthen their faith. In practice, though, Protestants depended primarily on the Sunday service to preserve and reinforce their religious sentiments. It was in the church that people felt closest to God. It was there they heard the sermons that explained the Bible and upheld the evangelical ideal of moral behavior. My father said the he has seen many changes over the last few decades. His view on the world is saddened because there has been a great decline in morality in the world as well as in our country and a lot of people and churches have come under heavy criticism and persecution. I think a lot of it comes from ignorance and a lot of it comes from fear. When you think about it the two go together.

Another aspect that has set religion against one another is televised religion. The unprecedented linking of twentieth-century technology with Christ's commandment, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" ( Mark 16:15), has created a dynamic new phenomenon that I call "the electric ch

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