Three Anglicans on the "Asbury Revival"
Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 11:37PM
Embryo Parson in "Three Streams" Anglicanism, ACNA, Anglican Realignment, Continuing Anglicanism, Evangelicalism, Neo-Anglicanism, Pentecostalism and Charismaticism, The Problem of Anglican Identity, Traditional Anglicanism

"Anglican" No. 1

"Anglican" No. 2

Anglican No. 3

Anglican No. 3. Be that guy.

Anyone who knows anything at all about the history of American revivalism understands that every "revival" has proved to be nothing more than a flash in the pan.  Spectacular and popular, yes, but yielding no substantial fruit in the long run.  A flash in the pan and then a subsequent return to the godless staus quo.  Did the First and Second Great Awakenings produce any substantial long-term fruit?  Look where we are now as a nation.  And what of the little mini-revivals since then?  Where's the fruit?  A few of them produced rank heresy, like the Prosperity Gospel.  The rest of them fizzled.   There was a similar "revival" at Asbury in 1970.   What became of that?  I guess if you don't succeed, try, try again. 

How unlike the original Pentecost, which gave rise to the Catholic Church 2,000 years ago, and wherein lies the true and abiding glory of the Holy Ghost in its quiet, mystical solemnity.

Be Anglican No. 3.  He understands Montanism and gnosticism.  You'll find the real thing in the churches that "merely" proclaim Christ in Word and Sacrament, and you'll understand why true Anglicans have always derided "enthusiasm."

Oh and by the way, the fact that the *MSM* is all over this story should prove instructive.  For them it's all about the "wow" factor.  The faith and practice of the Apostles and the Fathers as manifested in the Catholic Church doesn't concern them in the least.

Pastor Chris Rosebrough presents a particularly Lutheran assessment here, and though Anglicans would demur on certain points of Lutheran theology it is still worth the hour it takes to watch it.

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