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Nov. 22, 2021 - Jim Bakker Show
03:36
The Pandemic Revival - Gene Bailey
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The Jesus Movement Conundrum 00:03:08
You talk about the pandemic revival.
What's happening?
What do you mean by that?
Well, I think we all reevaluated our lives during the pandemic.
And the good side of that was we spent more time with family, and that was good.
That was good for about a month.
Then we were done.
We were like, all right, let's get on with this.
But I do believe that it caused people.
Same thing happened with 9-11.
If you remember the Sunday after 9-11, churches were full all across America.
That's right.
We weren't ready.
But you can go back before that.
Go back to the Jesus movement.
And the churches didn't know what to do with the converts.
They come in and they didn't look right.
They didn't smell right.
They didn't act right.
And so we lost.
There was a big, only less than 40% of those that got saved during the Jesus movement are still believers.
Really?
I did not know that's the case.
But you're right.
The church wasn't.
Were you there in the Jesus movement, Mondo?
You were still in the church.
I was there, Jean.
He was pretty young.
I was there.
But you know what, Gene, you're so right.
I was born and raised in church, good fundamental church.
But when the Jesus movement happened, I wish the church knew what to do with those of us that went to the Jesus movement concerts and Keith Green and all this kind of stuff.
But they just didn't know.
Crazy kids.
A lot of crazy kids are God.
And they didn't know what to do with them.
But here's the problem.
They look, and it just feels like I'm bashing pastors.
I'm not bashing you, but I am.
I am one, so I have something to say.
You are one.
So we have to not, it's so easy to look at our four walls and our congregation.
That's a good thing.
We're looking at our group of people that we're there to shepherd.
That's a good thing.
But we cannot keep that alone.
And you can't, then what happens if we're not careful, we get over into, I've got to protect my people.
And so you're protecting your people.
And so what happened, little by little, people started believing that the separation of church and state was actually in the Constitution.
In fact, it may be in the Bible somewhere.
And it's just not the truth.
So the easiest thing to do is let's stay in the middle and don't offend anybody.
And then we'll see.
And if you get saved, that's great.
Welcome.
Just make sure you dress right.
And, you know, we try to keep it in the middle.
Well, you're looking at decades of that.
And suddenly, the veil was ripped apart and churches are being shown.
Pastors are being seen for who they really are.
And I believe this congregations now are going, so what are you going to do?
What do we do about this?
Are we going to meet?
Is the church going to meet?
The enemy is trying to shut down the church, Jim Lori, because what he did, he tried to close us, shut us down.
Then he put a mask to cover our voice.
That's the whole thing.
Listen, you can think it's about COVID.
No, it's about the eradication of the believer.
Take A Stand Wherever You're At 00:00:43
This is, don't think this is about a disease or a virus.
This is about right and wrong.
That's right.
Good and evil.
It's not even right versus left.
It's about good and evil here.
And this is why we're in the fight of our lives.
And if we don't stand up, Jim, if we don't take a stand, and that's what is so important, we have to take a stand wherever we're at.
And you think, well, and this is one thing I want to encourage those of you that are my age or older.
It's real easy to believe, well, my time has passed.
We'll leave that for the younger group.
No, no, listen.
Those of you over 65, you own the country.
Yes.
You have the money.
Right.
That's it.
You have the money.
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