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Hampton D. Harmon's avatar

Revival usually and definitionally comes after a generation dies, ie Exodus.

This means it always comes to the children of a generation that let it die. Godlessness is inherited. Revival comes out of the blue. That’s why it always comes in colleges and schools, and rarely in office buildings. Praying a generation of parents sees and doesn’t eye roll or squash it.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

It is not that simple. While some of this generation were not introduced to faith by their parents many were but rejected it. Some of the negative commentary illustrates the thinking - magic, man in the sky, ...

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Hampton D. Harmon's avatar

You’re right. I think maybe a clarification is that the generation above my own age as the most irreligious until mine came of age. And I think even a lot of, not all, faithful parents passed down a faith that was shallow, maybe not for the parents themselves but for their kids, so when it came up against the world, it folded.

But! A more important point may be that parents, especially the ones who are faithful and raising their children o be faithful, have been systematically removed from their role as chief culture makers. This is the revolt happening in VA and Florida.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I agree with your analysis. I am Baptist royalty, meaning everywhere part of my family set down roots they formed a Baptist church, but the modern southern Baptist conference left me cold. And school is so secular so I thought I did not believe because there is no proof. Fortunately I am reasonably intelligent so one day I had an epiphany - specifically that is why it is called faith. You cannot see it, touch it, taste it, smell it or feel it. You just have to believe. And once you do the hope, and thus the possibilities, is/are infinite. And at heart I am fundamentally Baptist because Baptists believe one does good because they ARE saved, not TO BE saved.

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