The Pentecostal movement is at a breakpoint moment.
She has never faced such a challenge in the one hundred and thirteen years of her history. It is the making of a perfect storm spiritually, with cultural pressure from without and ecclesiastical pressure from within.
This hedonistic, pluralistic cultural of relativism is no longer demanding the church to be tolerant and sensitive to the new norms, but to embrace them or be labeled as intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, and extremist.
The Equality Act of 2019 that has passed the U.S. Congress and is now in the Senate increases that pressure exponentially.
At the same time this cultural pressure is reaching unimaginable proportions the Pentecostal movement has a new generation of spiritual leaders that have never experienced authentic revival and spiritual awakening, but have been educated from kindergarten through university in a post-modern system.
Their entire education and training have been within a system that has rewritten history and moral values.
Even within our Christian universities the influence of Christianity upon U.S. history and the significant impact revival movements have made upon our culture has been rewritten.
This is a very toxic spiritual cocktail.
It has created a spiritual prism vastly different from their spiritual grandfathers who gave birth to the Pentecostal outpouring at the turn of the twentieth century and the spiritual fathers and mothers who came to faith and the baptism of the Holy Spirit during the Jesus People Movement and the Charismatic Renewal.
We are facing a challenging task..
Current spiritual trends in the Spirit-filled church do not give a solid foundation for the next generation.
Forty-six percent (46%) of born again millennials, those who are twenty-three years old to thirty-eight years old, believe the Bible is the actual Word of God and should be taken literally, word for word.
That is not a strong spiritual pool from which to raise up the new generation of leaders in the Pentecostal movement.
The framework being built on this foundation is just as weak.
