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Originally Posted by aron
Anyway, God was there, in the Jesus Movement of the 1960s. No doubt.
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Really. How do you know that?
I remember the instability back then. I experienced it firsthand.
I had a friend that was in the Children of God. He came back from the west coast to visit family and friends. He told me all about the CoG and wanted me to come with him and join.
My instability, as you call it, was driving me. To me at the time I was faced with two choices. One to join the CoG, or two to join the Rosicrucian's.
I drove from Detroit to San Jose Ca, where the Rosicrucian University was. Long story short, I bumped into the church in Santa Cruz. The rest is history.
Was that God moving in the 60s? Was the CoG God moving in the sixties? The movement that arranged the brothers to sleep with a different sister each night? The movement that invented "
Flirty Fishing?"
If not, what of the Jesus movement of the sixties was God moving? I got into the local church. Brought by a grifter from China selling cheap suits at flea markets. And that turned out to be a farce. Was that God moving in the sixties?
Down thru history there's been lots of such Jesus movements ... the fruit obviously of human instability, as you say, that came to naught.
The Welsh Revival, of early 20th c. is a popular example. The minister of that movement was Evan Roberts. He claimed direct visions from the Holy Spirit (bring anything to mind - ring a bell?).
But the one that it said to have inspired Watchman Nee's
The Spiritual Man,
Jessie Penn-Lewis, with her, War on the Saints shot that revival movement down, claiming it was not the movement of God, but a product of demon possession.
How can we know for sure what is a movement of God, and what is not?