Movements That Cease to Move

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:00 -0800

It is an illuminating experience to read the history of the great spiritual movements that have blessed the world over the last 2,000 years. Scarcely any of these began quietly; almost always they struck the earth with the suddenness of a cyclone. . . . History shows another fact also. When the first heat of the originators of great movements had spent itself after their death, immediately another spirit entered and took over--it was the spirit of conventionalism. It retained the outward form of the orginal movement but lost all the inward heat. The movement ceased to move; its adherents gained popularity and lost power; the apocalyptic quality of its message disappeared; its new teachers set about to make its teaching acceptable to Christendom--and their success became at last their greatest tragedy. It is a lamentable fact that the crusading spirit is almost wholly lost to the deeper life branches of the church. Modern crusaders are for the most part no more than high octane proselyters operating down on a level far below New Testament plateaus. They make all the noise and get all the notice, while hungry-hearted saints shake their heads in discouragement and wait for-what?

Experiencing God's Grace in a ... 2

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0800

Ginger Millermon talks about keeping her critically ill newborn baby on life support.