[ksen]

I guess I'd like to know if any FReepers are actually surprised that this national surge in church attendance turned out to be little more than a spiritual speedbump.

I'm not. This is exactly what I expected.

I am not surprised either. I am still saddened by the it though. I was holding out the glimmer of hope that this would lead to revival/awakening that my church, and so many others, have been praying for.

However, after seeing the "inclusiveness" that was going on during the different prayer vigils/meetings I kind of knew that 9-11 was helping America finish her turn away from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Muslim prayer meeting at the White House sealed it for me.

Oh well, I'll keep praying for that revival and awakening though, because God has a history of doing great works just when the day seems darkest.

-ksen

[George W. Bush]

Oh well, I'll keep praying for that revival and awakening though, because God has a history of doing great works just when the day seems darkest.

I'm afraid the events of 9/11 have in fact inspired something of a revival.

A revival of polytheism which has spread across most branches of American Christian churches.

The antiscriptural relativistic polytheism Rome has urged for many years has been forwarded substantially as a result of 9/11.

So there is no genuine Christian revival. This is part of the decline of the church, the great Falling Away of which the Bible warns us. If my suspicion about this is correct, then you know exactly what comes next.

I think the unscriptural notion of a great revival in the end times will mislead and disappoint many sincere Christians. They will be even more unprepared if there is no Rapture, but only the Tribulation. I think more people are reading the Left Behind series than read the Bible. Just another sign of the times.