- The first "wave" occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century with the rise of the Pentecostal movement, beginning with the Azusa Street Revival.
- The second "wave" occurred during the 1960s as the Charismatic movement spread throughout some Protestant denominations, as well as the Roman Catholic Church.
- The third "wave" occurred during the mid 1980s, and is identified as a resurgence of church planting and a new commitment to signs and wonders in evangelism.
Each wave identifies with different theologies regarding the Holy Spirit-but, which is universally understood as God within. Many Christians, including even some conservative Pentecostals, have rejected the "Third Wave" as being unbiblical.
One of the top reads in NAR circles is the novel, KINGDOM LOST. According to their website KINGDOM LOST is "A novel they will not want you to read." "An enjoyable read." "Tense story." "Ominous, I would recommend it."
Wayne Buchanan, Radio Talk Show Host & Assemblies of God Pastor went on the record, "If there is one novel a Christian ought to read in their lifetime, it's Kingdom Lost. It'll scare the willies out of everyone else too."
Something else that should have scared the
willies out of everyone was another article by Jeff Sharlet, who wrote for
HARPER'S May 2009 edition, "The Crusade for a Christian Military: Jesus
Killed Mohammed" regarding the entrenchment of Christian fundamentalism in
the USA military beginning during the Cold War that accelerated during the
Vietnam era and has wrecked havoc on the soul of our nation and misery for
multitudes.
Fundamentalist [referred to as evangelical by Sharlet] Chaplains began to join
the military in droves as they aligned themselves with the Industrial Military
Complex in opposition with Catholics and mainline moderate Protestant
denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians who were of
one voice speaking out against American terrorism in Vietnam and for following
in the ways of the nonviolent Jesus.
"Starting in 1987, Protestant denominations were lumped together simply as
"Protestant"; moreover, the Pentagon began accrediting hundreds of evangelical
and Pentecostal "endorsing agencies," allowing graduates of fundamentalist
Bible colleges--which often train clergy to view those from other faiths as
enemies of Christ--to fill up nearly the entire allotment for Protestant
chaplains. Today, more than two thirds of the military's 2,900 active-duty
chaplains are affiliated with evangelical or Pentecostal denominations." [3]
"For decades, the military built a sense of solidarity out of a singular
purpose, the Cold War struggle between free markets and state-planned
economies--the shining city on a hill versus the evil empire"meshed neatly with
ideologies [that connected] nationalism and fundamentalism"Communism"the dark
alternative should we fail to unite. Fundamentalism thrived"a neat,
black-and-white [theology and] a foreign policy. The end of the Cold War
deprived militant evangelicals of that clarity [and] the emergence of "radical
Islam" [became] the object of a new Cold War." [Ibid]
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