An ordained minister within the Disciples of Christ, claiming to hold advanced degrees from schools of divinity at Duke and Yale, continues spreading opinions wrapped in the Word of God on social media.

Rev. Caleb Hines posted a sermon on social media making claims about the divinity of God that are clearly contradictory to the Word of God.

“God is gay. God is a lesbian. God is trans. God is gender non-binary. God is straight. God is cis-gender. God is Black. God is white. God is Middle Eastern. God is Asian. God is differently abled, mentally and physically. God is able bodied. God is you. You are God, because you are a reflection of God’s divine image,” Hines was recorded saying.

While the notion of cloaking one’s own personal ideologies in Scripture in the hopes of justifying sinful lifestyle is not new, this practice has increased in recent years, especially in apostate churches that look to transform and “modernize” the Word of God.

A self-proclaimed “progressive Christian,” Hines and the Disciples of Christ denomination push narratives such as Jesus being a liberal, the need for gun control in America, the inclusion of the radical LGBTQ agenda and that true Christianity needs to be “reclaimed” because everything from Constantine on is wrong.

“The word ‘Christian’ has been hijacked,” claims Pastor Marshela Salgado-Solorio in defense of progressive Christianity. “Not just in recent decades, but this is centuries and centuries of hijacking. Progressive Christianity is trying to strip everything from Constantine on.”

In their eyes, the Great Awakenings got it wrong. The Azusa and Brownsville revivals got it wrong. According to their progressive doctrine, everything contrary to modern-day, radical leftist ideologies are wrong.

Including the written Word of God.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s message to President Joe Biden addressing the apostasy in the White House and America at large is just as relevant to these deceived “pastors” as it was to the President.

“You have called yourself a Christian, but how can you in reality be a Christian if you wage war against the ways and the Word of God,” Cahn asked.

“The Bible says that in the last days there will be a great apostasy, a great falling away, from faith. And thus, we will see a Christian-based civilization and nations falling into apostasy. We would then expect that the leaders of such nations will themselves be fallen into apostasy, and thus, will embody that apostasy. Have you not become the embodiment of that apostasy? We are now there.”

With faith leaders such as Hines and Salgado-Solorio falsely cloaking the Word of God in radical ideologies that are contrary to the very being of God in every way, Rabbi Cahn’s words strike true in their discernment of the times.

Rabbi Cahn also shares how to turn away from this road of apostasy that only leads to death.

“The only hope America has, and each of us have, is to turn to repent and to come under His mercy and into those [God’s] arms,” Cahn extolled. “The hour is late, and eternity is soon coming. Repent and turn to God for the only hope America has is revival and the only of us have is salvation.” {eoa}

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Humble repentance before the Father. Passion to worship Jesus. Hunger for God’s Word. The peaceful presence of the Holy Spirit. The hallmarks of the Asbury Awakening.

On Thursday night, during the final public event of this outpouring at Asbury University, broadcast directly from the school’s auditorium, those hallmarks were all on display as students publicly shared life-changing Scripture verses, worshipped with all their might, prayed fervently and received the commission to go out into the world to spread the Good News of the kingdom of heaven.

So many sovereign God-incidences have been evident throughout this awakening. From the 1970 Asbury Revival connection, to the release of a Jesus Revolution movie that had been in the works for years, to the coincidence with the Collegiate Day of Prayer, no earthly power could have timed it all so perfectly.

And no matter where it goes from here, it’s undeniable that this generation is full of souls who hunger and thirst for Jesus, and they will be filled.

Generation Z has been marred as the generation of anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. A number of students spoke directly during Thursday night’s national event about their struggles with these issues, telling of the new measures of freedom and hope they’ve found—that Jesus is changing them from the inside out and they no longer need to let these struggles define who they are. It was genuine, and it was powerful.

Adult speakers declared that God is “marking this generation” in such a way that the lives of those who have participated in this outpouring will never be the same. They’ll never be satisfied by the empty distractions of this world—nothing but the presence of Jesus.

The evening was filled with moments of consecration, scripture, worship, a focus on adopting every college campus for prayer, an expressed desire to reach the nations and a salvation message in which a number of souls professed newfound faith in Jesus Christ.

When it was time for the scheduled event to wrap up, the adult leaders of the Collegiate Day of Prayer began to conclude the night with some very poignant thoughts and prayer. But after 300+ hours of continuous revival, there was still a lingering sense that God wasn’t done. And He sure wasn’t.

That’s when the young people started chanting “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” It felt just like a glimpse of what heaven will be like when all the saints and angels gather around the throne crying “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.”

After that powerful moment, the students just broke out into more and more and more worship, singing “Great Are You Lord.” The impression was clear that they simply couldn’t contain their love and gratitude for the King of kings and Lord of lords, pouring out their worship on the One who saved them, set them free and gave them new life.

Some skeptics have said we’ll just have to wait and see if this is really a move of God or not. I have a few thoughts on that.

First, an army can’t go into battle if its members are wounded. To begin reversing the dual plagues of porn and anxiety, this phase of the awakening is like a holy hospital of sorts, bringing some deeply needed spiritual and emotional healing for this generation.

Second, the biblical model couldn’t be clearer—start in Jerusalem, then move out to Judea, and then to the ends of the earth. So if God wants to start on Christian campuses, and then move out from there, I think we older members of the church need to step up to the plate and pray fervently for the next phase.

I’m not good at predicting the future, but so far the awakening has already spread with power to multiple campuses, including Lee University, Samford University, Cedarville University, Texas A&M, Eastern Kentucky University, Valley Forge College, Hannibal-LaGrange University and the University of the Cumberlands, among other locations.

It’s clear to me that God is on the move, and this generation of young believers in Jesus Christ simply isn’t ready to quit the awakening just yet. They’re too grateful, too full of new life and new hope to contain the true revival that’s begun in their hearts. They’re gonna keep praising Jesus no matter what—because they’re not done, and God’s not done either.

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With pockets of revival sprouting up across the country the past few weeks, one couldn’t help but believe Ken Gaub is smiling widely in heaven. Gaub, whose roots in ministry began as a preacher in tent revivals in the 1950s and whose fame as a kingdom warrior spread around the world, died Thursday at the age of 87 in Union Gap, Washington, from medical complications from an auto accident late last summer.

Gaub’s daughter, Becki Gaub Segura, told the Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic that Gaub died from the result of injuries he suffered in a car crash six months ago. In the crash, Gaub suffered 30 broken bones—including 15 fractures in his face—and he underwent 12 hours of surgery to have his hip replaced and a pelvic bone reconstructed.

Gaub’s fractures began to heal, but his kidneys never returned to normal function.

“While he was getting better, able to stand up, they never could get his kidneys going, which eventually shut down,” Segura said.

Gaub spent more than 60 years in the service of the Lord. He was ordained at the age of 19 after completing Bible school in Seattle, Washington. He went on to marry Barbara Mains, and the couple moved to Kentucky where he served as a pastor for two years.

Segura told the Yakima Herald-Republic that her father then bought a semi-truck and large tent and began traveling to communities without churches to spread the gospel. She said Gaub would pull up, set up the tent and people would gather to listen to his message.

“Back in those days you didn’t have to advertise ahead of time, you just put up a big tent and people would come out to see what it was,” Segura said.

Over the span of his life, Gaub saw a great deal of excitement. He was shot in Kosovo, eluded border agents in Albania, packed Britain’s Royal Albert Hall, helped build a pioneer church in Russia, carried food and medicine into India and visited Vietnam with Bob Hope, the Herald-Republic reported.

He counted Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, former Israel President Shimon Peres and the inmates at Leavenworth federal penitentiary as his friends.

Gaub wrote many books and articles, including this one published by the C.S. Lewis Institute titled, “God’s Got Your Number.”

Heart for Israel

Gaub had a strong heart for Israel. He made more that 160 trips to the Holy Land and brought more than 10,000 people along on those trips.

“He wanted people to see true Israel and come back and be ambassadors for Israel,” Segura said.

Family friend Mark Flippin told the Herald-Republic that Gaub’s sense of humor and “disarming approach” allowed him to reach others easily, and that Gaub was a very generous individual.

“If he saw a need, he tried to meet it, whether it be financially or someone needing to get their car fixed, he’d help,” Flippin said.

A celebration of life for Gaub will be held on April 22 at Yakima Foursquare Church. {eoa}

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This article originally appeared on Curt Landry Ministries.

*Note this is the first in a two-part series.

The Word says that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. The power of humility quickens you in the spirit so that you can discern wisely and walk with authority.

Humility grounds you in and centers you on God. It helps you remember that…

· It’s not your wisdom

· It’s not your knowledge

· It’s not your intelligence

These are all given to you as a gift from God. Honor is the currency of heaven. Honor comes with humility, and you can’t have what you don’t honor. Therefore walk humbly, repent of any pride and begin to see prayers answered.

Today we’re going to talk about praying in the heavenly courts and the power of humility in spiritual warfare. It’s important to have a value system of humility when you go into the heavenly courts to pray because the Lord resists the proud, and He gives grace to the humble.

I’m going to pray with you through some things and I want you to be acutely aware of the inner knower, the Holy Spirit, quickening to you about the places you might have pride and need discernment.

I just want you to be aware. Listen, we all have areas of pride, where we lack humility, where we think we’re over something, and then we’ll have an event happen, and it will awaken. I’m going to give you an example.

Needing the Power of Humility in Spiritual Warfare

Christie and I had only done a little traveling during the whole two years with COVID. We’re going out to the Los Angeles area to connect with some Curt Landry Ministries (CLM) partners and donors.

So on this particular trip, we went to Los Angeles first, where I grew up. So we flew into LAX, and I grew up in the neighborhood right near the airport. It was a very familiar area to me. And, like anytime you are at an airport, there are always a number of people you have to interact with: rental car people, people driving the bus and all the staff at the airport.

As we started talking with people, we realized how emotionally wounded and stressed they were. Christie and I are Oklahomans; we just talk to people. So we’re talking, and people are very open. And what was so shocking to me was how emotionally wounded and stressed out the general public was everywhere we went on this trip.

This opened up my mind. It humbled me that, first of all, the Lord has kept us where we live in Oklahoma. Secondly, it humbled me to think what we’re carrying is what they need.

Yeshua is the answer, but we also carry something they need, an understanding of spiritual warfare. We can’t think, “Well, they’ll get it from somebody else,” which is a prideful thing to say. It’s like, no, the Lord says, “I’m putting a demand on you and what you carry. I want you to give it to these people.”

So a lot of times, pride is not as obvious as “Oh, I’m prideful because I’m successful, or I got this grade on this test, or I was accepted into this club or a sorority,” or whatever. It’s not. Sometimes it’s prideful thinking, “You know what? What I have somehow it’s mine, my intelligence, my wisdom, my knowledge.”

To battle pride in spiritual warfare, you must understand…

• It’s not your wisdom.
• It’s not your knowledge.
• It’s not your intelligence.

These are gifts from God. And when it’s a gift from God, this is where humility comes in. If the Lord tells you to give it to the guy at Avis rent-a-car and minister to him and spend time, even though your calendar is full, you do it.

In your mind, you are thinking, “I’m just wanting to get to the hotel, unpack and take a nap before the meeting.” Know that God is at work, and humility is to say, “Yes, Lord, Your will be done, not mine.”

So sometimes, we have to pray and say, “Lord, show me where the pride is.” {eoa}

Click here to view Rabbi Landry’s book on spiritual warfare!

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Curt Landry, founder of Curt Landry Ministries, and his wife, Christie, travel extensively, preaching and teaching about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Together, their passion is to empower families to live and leave Kingdom legacies and understand their own personal heritage.

To put it plainly: America needs to see “Jesus Revolution.”

This telling of the counterculture movement that saw the revival fires of the West Coast spread across the world could not come at a better time.

With an America that is enduring dark times and division amongst her people, the stage is set for another national awakening just as it was in the late Sixties when the Jesus Movement began.

Charisma News sat down with producer Andy Erwin, who along with his brother Jon are the creative minds behind such movies as “I Can Only Imagine” and “Woodlawn,” to discuss their new upcoming film “Jesus Revolution.”

“I think that this film represents an inner yearning for so many people,” said Erwin. “It represents a desire of God to do it never before. For people outside the church, especially for a younger generation, it represents the answer to the equation for something I think they’ve been desperately looking for.”

As each new generation comes of age, the same questions persist in their minds, they just manifest them differently. They search for that something missing in their lives, especially when society is experiencing a spiritual darkness similar to the 1960s.

People today are struggling to find their identity and purpose in life, while the world tries to guide them to false narratives and warped versions of who they are in Christ. The Erwin brothers felt an urgency to share the story of the Jesus Movement that helped shape a generation of spiritual leaders who found their identity despite that era’s darkness.

“People were just burnt out on the free love and sex, drugs and rock and roll kind of movement, looking for the right things in the wrong places,” Erwin continued. “They were looking for truth and love and to belong and identity, but they were looking for it in this thing that was a bottomless pit. And when the bottom fell out, they had an encounter with a living God.

“It was a moment in time where Christianity was very overt, and it was very countercultural. And those things shouldn’t go together, and they did.”

The movement worked, and is still working, because when it put God and His love in the center of it, the fruit of the Spirit was able to manifest in people’s lives.

The unwanted of society now had hope, identity, purpose and a sense of belonging that the world simply cannot offer. This pure sense of knowing one’s Creator can only come from a relationship with God.

Releasing in theaters nationwide on Feb. 24, “Jesus Revolution” has an all-star cast including Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier” and “Cheers”) and Jonathan Roumie (“The Chosen”) that brings the power of Jesus’ love to the big-screen.

Following the revival outbreak at Asbury University, this film could not come out at a better time for America. {eoa}

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James Lasher is Staff Writer for Charisma Media.

Bill Wiese, the author of the New York Times best-selling book “23 Minutes in Hell,” has a staunch warning for universalists who believe everyone will go to heaven.

“These people fail to realize that God is a God of justice and judgment,” Wiese says. “They say God is love, and that He would never allow such suffering, for people to go to hell. Believe everyone gets a free pass. The Universalist tries to support their beliefs with Scripture, but I’m here to tell you that the Universalist teaching is false and heretical.”

Wiese refers to British evangelist John Blanchard’s book, “Hell on Trial,” to explain the origin of universalism.

“It’s when Satan brushed aside God’s warning and said to Eve, ‘You will surely not die,'” Wiese says. “But Jesus said in John 11:25-26, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, yet shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.'”

Jesus said in Luke 13:3: “I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Wiese says many universalists use five specific scriptures to support their beliefs and teaching. But, he says, they don’t incorporate the verses around those scriptures to get the full meaning of what is being said. “You can’t just pick out the one verse. You have to read all around it.”

Those scriptures, which Wiese explains thoroughly in this video, include: 1 Timothy 4:10; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 1:10; Colossians 1:20; and Romans 5:18.

Those looking for further proof, Wiese says, should seek no further than Acts 4:12, which reads:

“There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Also, Matthew 7:13-14, which reads, “Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it, because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

“These Scriptures are pretty clear,” Wiese says.

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

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This article originally appeared on Curt Landry Ministries.

*Note this is the first in a two-part series.

The Word says that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. The power of humility quickens you in the spirit so that you can discern wisely and walk with authority.

Humility grounds you in and centers you on God. It helps you remember that…

· It’s not your wisdom

· It’s not your knowledge

· It’s not your intelligence

These are all given to you as a gift from God. Honor is the currency of heaven. Honor comes with humility, and you can’t have what you don’t honor. Therefore walk humbly, repent of any pride and begin to see prayers answered.

Today we’re going to talk about praying in the heavenly courts and the power of humility in spiritual warfare. It’s important to have a value system of humility when you go into the heavenly courts to pray because the Lord resists the proud, and He gives grace to the humble.

I’m going to pray with you through some things and I want you to be acutely aware of the inner knower, the Holy Spirit, quickening to you about the places you might have pride and need discernment.

I just want you to be aware. Listen, we all have areas of pride, where we lack humility, where we think we’re over something, and then we’ll have an event happen, and it will awaken. I’m going to give you an example.

Needing the Power of Humility in Spiritual Warfare

Christie and I had only done a little traveling during the whole two years with COVID. We’re going out to the Los Angeles area to connect with some Curt Landry Ministries (CLM) partners and donors.

So on this particular trip, we went to Los Angeles first, where I grew up. So we flew into LAX, and I grew up in the neighborhood right near the airport. It was a very familiar area to me. And, like anytime you are at an airport, there are always a number of people you have to interact with: rental car people, people driving the bus and all the staff at the airport.

As we started talking with people, we realized how emotionally wounded and stressed they were. Christie and I are Oklahomans; we just talk to people. So we’re talking, and people are very open. And what was so shocking to me was how emotionally wounded and stressed out the general public was everywhere we went on this trip.

This opened up my mind. It humbled me that, first of all, the Lord has kept us where we live in Oklahoma. Secondly, it humbled me to think what we’re carrying is what they need.

Yeshua is the answer, but we also carry something they need, an understanding of spiritual warfare. We can’t think, “Well, they’ll get it from somebody else,” which is a prideful thing to say. It’s like, no, the Lord says, “I’m putting a demand on you and what you carry. I want you to give it to these people.”

So a lot of times, pride is not as obvious as “Oh, I’m prideful because I’m successful, or I got this grade on this test, or I was accepted into this club or a sorority,” or whatever. It’s not. Sometimes it’s prideful thinking, “You know what? What I have somehow it’s mine, my intelligence, my wisdom, my knowledge.”

To battle pride in spiritual warfare, you must understand…

• It’s not your wisdom.
• It’s not your knowledge.
• It’s not your intelligence.

These are gifts from God. And when it’s a gift from God, this is where humility comes in. If the Lord tells you to give it to the guy at Avis rent-a-car and minister to him and spend time, even though your calendar is full, you do it.

In your mind, you are thinking, “I’m just wanting to get to the hotel, unpack and take a nap before the meeting.” Know that God is at work, and humility is to say, “Yes, Lord, Your will be done, not mine.”

So sometimes, we have to pray and say, “Lord, show me where the pride is.” {eoa}

Click here to view Rabbi Landry’s book on spiritual warfare!

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Curt Landry, founder of Curt Landry Ministries, and his wife, Christie, travel extensively, preaching and teaching about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Together, their passion is to empower families to live and leave Kingdom legacies and understand their own personal heritage.

If Charles Harrison Mason were alive today, Church of God in Christ Presiding Bishop John Drew Sheard says he would have only one thing to say: “I told you so.”

The founder and first senior bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Sheard says Mason prophesied in the early 1900s that COGIC would grow exponentially and that there were be “no building large enough to hold the people that would come.”

Mason was spot on. From “humble beginnings,” the Church of God in Christ has blossomed today into what is the largest Holiness Pentecostal church denomination in the world with more than 12,000 churches in 112 countries.

In an exclusive interview with Charisma News, Sheard says he’s extremely encouraged by what God is doing with the predominantly African American denomination these days as it not only continues to grow in membership, but also continues to expand its horizons in ministries he says God has richly blessed because they are “helping individuals in their communities live better lives.”

As the nation continues to celebrate Black History Month this February, the denomination’s kingdom work is especially valuable these days when the culture is giving everyone a reason to run away from God. People are clamoring for something—anything—to cling to that will help them live more satisfying lives, and Sheard says COGIC is continuing to develop ministries to do just that.

“Our churches and our kingdom warriors are involved in so many levels with things like economic development. It is a blessing to have the opportunity to affect people’s lives,” says Sheard, who is also the Chief Apostle of COGIC. “When a person has good living conditions, their mindset is going to be different. It eliminates a level of stress and you are able to live more comfortably.

“When Jesus speaks to us about saving souls, it is also about making their living conditions better. Because of what God has given us, the Church of God in Christ has been able to change people’s lives, and that’s what’s gratifying. But it’s not us, it’s all about God. We can’t help everyone, but we’re sure trying.”

Sheard says in the city of Memphis the Church of God in Christ has funded and helped to build 20 units of affordable housing in the inner city. With rent prices across the nation continuing to spin out of control, COGIC officials want to make sure many individuals and families are able to afford a decent place to live.

COGIC Director of Economic Development Darrin Burns told Action News that “a downtown is for everyone. And so, we want to make downtown affordable for anyone who lives here, regardless of your economic status. Our target is to make it (rent) under the threshold of what it is right now because again, our motto is ‘affordable housing for downtown.”

In 2017, COGIC joined forces with Memphis city leaders to create an affordable housing community called Mason Village, which located next to the COGIC headquarters. Sheard says they are looking to break ground on another site very soon.

COGIC Charities continues to help with worldwide relief efforts, including its campaign to help with physical needs in Syria and Turkey, who were recently hit by a devastating earthquake. More than 47,000 people have died from that natural disaster. COGIC Charities is providing humanitarian aid to individuals in those countries.

But that’s not all, Sheard says. COGIC wants to do ministry that will “affect coming generations.” COGIC has begun a partnership with Waste Management for a comprehensive employment program not only to get individuals into the work force, but to give those individuals a sense of purpose and identity within their community.

“It gives these people an opportunity to not only be a blessing to themselves, but to be a blessing to their spouse, their children and their community around them,” Sheard says. “In the agreement, Waste Management will pay for their school and will pay for their children to go to college. So, that’s how we’re affection generations.”

And speaking of generations, Sheard says he knows how difficult today’s youth have it to walk the straight and narrow path. The American culture has continued to grow cold against Jesus, and indeed millennials and members of Gen Z are falling away from the church.

It is the church’s responsibility, Sheard says, to provide meaningful ministry and to find out exactly what “our young people are in need of, ministry that will meet the needs of the people.”

“We have to come up with ministry that can pull the kids back into the church and back to Jesus,” Sheard says. “We have not changed our methods, and our methods must meet the needs of the kids today. We have to find effective new ministries and be open to what they need. That doesn’t mean that we will compromise, because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.

“We’ve got to find out what exactly is keeping our young people from church, and then we need to make those changes. I believe we’re doing that. I know that I am here at my local church. I listen to what they are saying, and we have to deliver ministry that’s attractive to them.”

Which is exactly, Sheard says, what Mason and the forerunners of the COGIC denomination—people like Arenia C. Mallory, and J.O. Patterson—did from the beginning.

And that, Sheard says, gives COGIC a lot to celebrate during Black History Month.

“We are so appreciative of how God has used Black Americans to move the kingdom forward,” Sheard says. “We have so much to appreciate as far as Black History goes. But we also need to continue to move forward and build not only ministries that will contribute to making mankind better, but also to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

“We hope that God continues to smile down upon us and give us direction to do His will every day. Then, generations to come will be able to continue to celebrate Black History month and point to those individuals who have pushed forward with the gospel and with God’s work.” {eoa}

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To put it plainly: America needs to see “Jesus Revolution.”

This telling of the counterculture movement that saw the revival fires of the West Coast spread across the world could not come at a better time.

With an America that is enduring dark times and division amongst her people, the stage is set for another national awakening just as it was in the late Sixties when the Jesus Movement began.

Charisma News sat down with producer Andy Erwin, who along with his brother Jon are the creative minds behind such movies as “I Can Only Imagine” and “Woodlawn,” to discuss their new upcoming film “Jesus Revolution.”

“I think that this film represents an inner yearning for so many people,” said Erwin. “It represents a desire of God to do it never before. For people outside the church, especially for a younger generation, it represents the answer to the equation for something I think they’ve been desperately looking for.”

As each new generation comes of age, the same questions persist in their minds, they just manifest them differently. They search for that something missing in their lives, especially when society is experiencing a spiritual darkness similar to the 1960s.

People today are struggling to find their identity and purpose in life, while the world tries to guide them to false narratives and warped versions of who they are in Christ. The Erwin brothers felt an urgency to share the story of the Jesus Movement that helped shape a generation of spiritual leaders who found their identity despite that era’s darkness.

“People were just burnt out on the free love and sex, drugs and rock and roll kind of movement, looking for the right things in the wrong places,” Erwin continued. “They were looking for truth and love and to belong and identity, but they were looking for it in this thing that was a bottomless pit. And when the bottom fell out, they had an encounter with a living God.

“It was a moment in time where Christianity was very overt, and it was very countercultural. And those things shouldn’t go together, and they did.”

The movement worked, and is still working, because when it put God and His love in the center of it, the fruit of the Spirit was able to manifest in people’s lives.

The unwanted of society now had hope, identity, purpose and a sense of belonging that the world simply cannot offer. This pure sense of knowing one’s Creator can only come from a relationship with God.

Releasing in theaters nationwide on Feb. 24, “Jesus Revolution” has an all-star cast including Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier” and “Cheers”) and Jonathan Roumie (“The Chosen”) that brings the power of Jesus’ love to the big-screen.

Following the revival outbreak at Asbury University, this film could not come out at a better time for America. {eoa}

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James Lasher is Staff Writer for Charisma Media.

Every year for over three-and-a-half decades, a gathering of senior Christian leaders takes place to discover God’s vision and agenda for the times in which we live. We also come to deepen friendships and spend time in intercessory prayer.

I attend every year, but this year was a mix of serious situations and a supernatural surprise.

I consider it an honor to be one of the leaders invited so we’re better equipped to guide those whom we serve. Over the years some of those hosted by senior prophetic leader Rick Joyner’s team have included Steve Strang, Lance Wallnau, Janet Porter, Bobby Connor, Marc Nuttle, Bob Weiner, Chris Reed, John Dawson, Wellington Boone and others (Dr. Michael Brown, Cindy Jacobs, Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, Ricky Skaggs, Ret. Lt. General Jerry Boykin are also often with us).

Listen to the next few weeks of “Week in Review” video commentaries to hear firsthand some of these key leaders share for 10 minutes from their perspective on the hottest issues of our day. I think you’ll enjoy hearing from these special servants of the Lord sharing with you as if they were right there in your living room!

Hot Cultural Topics

We came together to submit what issues we believe should be at the forefront for biblically informed discussion and prayer. This year, the following topics were submitted leading to a lively learning experience:

• Communist China’s expanding influence and quest for world domination
• Putin, Russia and the Ukraine invasion and its implications
• The chaos, cover-up and consequences from allowing over 6 million foreign nationals (migrants, sex traffickers, drug dealers, kidnappers, criminals, terrorists and fentanyl carrying cartels) to freely walk into America at our southern border contrary to our immigration laws and jeopardize our national security
• The call to resist “woke” cultural coercion and fight for our God-given Constitutional freedoms under assault
• Spreading revival fires and increasing hunger for another Jesus Movement/spiritual awakening in America
• Growing distrust and corruption in our government and media
• Widespread “Progressive” Marxist/Socialist propaganda in society and schools
• Our volatile economy and ongoing financial instability, shortages and skyrocketing prices
• The 2024 election: Biden/Trump/DeSantis/others?
• Collapse of voter integrity
• Protecting children from aggressive LGBTQ agenda/Critical Race Theory/transgender mutilation and manipulation
• Strategy for the church dealing with tyranny and timidity in the pulpit
• Coming off the sidelines to the front lines to be salt/light as God is sounding an alarm!

Our discussions were characterized by tremendous civility and insight so that we as Christians remain hopeful, resilient and proactive (rather than reactive) in these turbulent times.

Convergence

Amidst what is truly a dangerous and discouraging time to be alive, the overwhelming consensus was that God was doing something very special in our generation!

The spontaneous visitation by God at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky has brought much-needed inspiration and hope to millions across America, especially young people.

After the usual chapel service, students lingered and kept worshiping. For two weeks, this unusual display of devotion hasn’t stopped with people coming to this small town from across America saying they’re experiencing the manifest presence of God in a life-changing way!

Scores are recognizing this and other recent developments as a sign that God wants to bring revival to our land. Consider the fast moving chain of events coming together over the past weeks:

• An NFL football player collapses on the field during the game and it triggers athletes kneeling unashamedly in humble prayer, asking God for a miracle which happens as the young man is twice brought back to life.
• A Christian NHL player declines to wear a gay pride jersey due to his spiritual conviction and triggers an entire NHL team to be emboldened and follow suit.
• At a pro-abortion event on the same day commemorating overturning the Roe v. Wade decision, Vice President Kamala Harris is called out for deliberately deleting the references to “Creator” and “right to life” in our Declaration of Independence.
• At the “National Gathering for Repentance and Prayer” in the D.C. Bible Museum faith leaders from across America and abroad alongside Senators and Congressmen and women humbly and openly witness confession of specific sins of homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism, same-sex “marriage,” pornography, violence and abortion with scores participating through streaming as millions cry out in repentance and for America to turn back to God.
• Super Bowl takes place with unity and patriotism; two African-Americans as quarterbacks (a first) who are also Christians; no protests or refusals to stand for the National Anthem; two Jesus ads; and a half time show devoid of sensuality. Wow!
• Eight unexpected and powerful outpouring of Holy Spirit revival at Asbury that starts spreading to other campuses.
• After a six year delay, the long anticipated “Jesus Revolution” movie debuts nationwide, telling the true story of the Jesus Movement that rocked America over 50 years ago.

At the round table, we repeatedly gave glory to God for what was happening, celebrated the convergence of these events and thanked God for what seems to be the breakout of revival fire for which so many have prayed for so long.

Here’s the Deal: In a number of months Intercessors for America national prayer ministry, where I serve as a board member, will celebrate 50 years of equipping and calling Americans to humble ourselves, live uprightly and pray for this nation that God has blessed so abundantly. In this exciting time of convergence and calling our nation back to God, I hope my round table experience, which I will highlight further in my next article, will bring you fresh inspiration to “run with endurance the race that is set before us. Let us look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith…” (-2).

“If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and fling yourself into it!” {eoa}

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