Is This Really Revival?

There is a lot of talk about revival lately.Even secular media types referred to the events surrounding Charlie Kirk’s memorial service as a “Christian revival.” However, the discussion is not new, it is just amplified in the wake of Kirk’s assassination. Young people are returning to religion in record numbers. Videos of mass baptisms abound. This phenomenon seems to be a reaction to the overbearing nature of woke thinking on people who want to live reasonable lives. Young people have especially been indoctrinated with it.Charlie Kirk was especially adept at opposing the ravages of woke thinking on our culture, and he was especially good and explaining it on the basis of his Christian world view. People are realizing that a Christian world view is reasonable and provides the only cognitively consistent response to the insanity our country has endured—especially over the last 17 years.However, a return to religion in a culture is not necessarily revival. It could be just a cultural rebalancing, even if many of those are turning to true faith in Jesus Christ. In the worst case, a “Christian revival” can be an emotional social contagion in the same way that transgenderism has been over the last decade—albeit a good and much less destructive one.It all depends on how we want to define the word revival.…Read the rest of the article here, or just listen to the podcast. Get full access to the Proclaim & Defend Podcast at proclaimdefend.substack.com/subscribe