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The Church has always persecuted Fresh Moves of God
As I was reading SF excellent appeal for balance on both sides of the spectrum in the church. I began to reflect on Church history, I like to read church history and what God has done over the 2000+ year history of the church.
I happen as a hobby to be a student of history.
Many of you might not be aware but in almost every case, every fresh moves of God such as community renewals, out breaks of manifestations of the gifts of the spirit, power encounters that led to many conversions has always been killed because of persecution from the established church. Not from outside due to worldliness.
The established church through the lenses of its particular dogma, doctrinal interpretations became the gauge of what was acceptable and non acceptable, but in many cases through bureaucratic control and fear and intimidation it either drove out those crying for renewal or caused their voices to be silenced.
So the fear that worldliness will kill the true church is unfounded.
You might be tempted to think about the United Methodist Church or the Liberal mainline churches, but even in those cases where real renewal happened, as those revivals progressed and non-spiritual bureaucrats took control, then theological liberalism and worldliness set in.
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