Revival in the Christian Church
The Christian Church is experiencing a renaissance.
The history of Christianity in the Western world has always been intricately connected with the social and political realities of the times and cultures in which it has existed. This is as true today in the United States as it has been at any other point in history. A national resurgence or revival of interest in the Christian Church, it is asserted, is taking place, and it is imperative that the Christian Church promotes the essential ideals of Jesus Christ’s teachings. Another issue is that society is today seized by deep differences as evangelical Christianity, which is typically connected with extreme conservatism, is misunderstood as a true resurgence of the faith. Uncomfortably, the two have become so mixed that the essence of the Christian Church and what it represents has been lost. In this article, we will examine why the notion of a modern revival of the Christian Church is wrong. Actually, a true revival is more necessary today than ever before, primarily because political ideologies have become too closely associated with how the Church is perceived, and because the survival of the Christian Church is dependent on Christians adhering to, and insisting on, the values that define their faith.
Analysis
First and first, it is vital to identify how far this current revival of the Christian Church has strayed from the reality of the Church itself, which highlights the need for a genuine revival in today’s society. There is no doubt that, in recent years, the public’s interest in the Church has expanded considerably, both in terms of the number of adherents and the general public’s understanding of the Church’s implications. Much of this, on the other hand, is so intertwined with social and political sentiment that it becomes nearly impossible to identify the Christian Church as being at the heart of the revivalist movement. There are other examples, such as New Hope Baptist Church in Burlington, North Carolina, which extended its week-long revival session to eleven weeks in 2016, just due to the overwhelming demand from guests seeking to convert. The identical thing happened in West Virginia the same year, and it was the same situation (Sammons, 2018). Ministry leaders have therefore taken to social media in an effort both to encourage participation in the activity and to express their gratitude for the fresh influx of devotion to the Church. It is also impossible to divorce these revivalist events from the tides of social and political passion that are currently sweeping the country. In fact, it is arguable that the interest in revivalism is proportional to the fraction of the population that is passionately conservative and that focuses on traditionally social concepts of Christianity in life rather than the teachings of Christ. To put it another way, the Christian Church is experiencing a renaissance, but it is one that is diametrically opposed to Christianity and is built on extremist ideologies.
The foregoing is then part of a trajectory revealing how desperately Church leaders need to rekindle a revivalist spirit that is oriented on the very substance of Christianity itself. For several years, the present scenario of ecstasy has been changing and evolving. In truth, what has transpired is a resurgence of authentic Christian ideology as a counter-movement to fundamentalist evangelical movements motivated by social and political goals. Extremists were encouraged to believe in a new and intense revival gripping the country in the 1980s and 1990s, which was set on protecting the conventional features of society as a result of evangelical triumphs in opposing homosexual marriage and other liberties during that time period. Instead, a Christian response emerged that was defiant in the face of prejudice (Jones, 2016, p. 120). Christian leaders from all around the country are speaking out against any link of their faith with the current political situation.
Furthermore, it is noteworthy that the general public is mostly unaware of the rift in Christian life that has been exacerbated by the Trump campaign. The reality is that while Trump’s opponents perceived him to have had constant Christian evangelical support at the time and today, this was not the case; many conservative Christian leaders and organizations criticized Trump’s election as degrading the fundamental quality of the faith (FitzGerald, 2017, p. 630). As long as the administration is in power and continues to refer to itself as Christian, believers of true Christianity are distancing themselves from it and fostering interest in the faith only on the basis of the commandments of love as taught by Christ.
To put it another way, there is no denying that modern Christianity has become a contentious issue in contemporary American society. A greater emphasis on Christian spirituality is today completed equated with evangelicalism, which is in turn extensively connected with extreme conservatism and far-right political beliefs, probably to an unparalleled degree (FitzGerald, 2017, p. 535). There is nothing suitable about any of this, and it all calls for a more active return to the basic presence of the Christian Church as a community serving the needs of its members. There is an inherent beauty in the Church’s universality of acceptance, which has become entangled and misused in a variety of social and political objectives over the centuries. In fact, the culture is in danger of losing the inestimable benefits of the Church, benefits that are extremely valuable in a multicultural society characterized by a wide range of religious beliefs.
Conclusion
It becomes evident, once the reality of current evangelical movements is grasped, that there is no revival of the Christian Church in any meaningful sense taking place. rather than being a distortion of the Church, it is an attack on Christ’s teachings The Christian, whether a devout follower or a hopeful aspirant, must acknowledge that the foundation of his or her faith is devotion to God and Christ’s commands to humanity. Evangelicalism, on the other hand, is unjustly discriminatory and relies on conceptions of race and origin to define what it means to be a believer. This is inacceptable and perhaps dangerous to the Christian religion. It is therefore more important than ever before for the Church to experience a genuine revival, not least because socio-political ideologies have become too entangled with how she is perceived, and because the survival of the Christian Church is dependent on Christians adhering to, and insisting on, the core values that define the faith.
References
FitzGerald, F., and FitzGerald, F. (2017). The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Define America’s Identity. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York.
R. P. Jones, R. P. Jones & Associates, Inc. (2016). The End of White Christian America as We Know It. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York.
R. Sammons et al (5 April 2018). 5 RECENT AND ON-GOING AMERICAN REVIVALS THAT ARE COMPLETELY TRANSFORMING EVERYTHING Retrieved from http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display art.html?ID=24152 on April 15, 2007.
