Jim Bakker Show - The Pandemic Revival - Gene Bailey
Aired: 2021-11-22
Duration: 03:36


=== The Jesus Movement Conundrum (03:08) ===

[00:00:00]  You talk about the pandemic revival.
[00:00:03]  What's happening?
[00:00:04]  What do you mean by that?
[00:00:05]  Well, I think we all reevaluated our lives during the pandemic.
[00:00:10]  And the good side of that was we spent more time with family, and that was good.
[00:00:15]  That was good for about a month.
[00:00:18]  Then we were done.
[00:00:19]  We were like, all right, let's get on with this.
[00:00:22]  But I do believe that it caused people.
[00:00:24]  Same thing happened with 9-11.
[00:00:26]  If you remember the Sunday after 9-11, churches were full all across America.
[00:00:31]  That's right.
[00:00:33]  We weren't ready.
[00:00:34]  But you can go back before that.
[00:00:35]  Go back to the Jesus movement.
[00:00:37]  And the churches didn't know what to do with the converts.
[00:00:40]  They come in and they didn't look right.
[00:00:42]  They didn't smell right.
[00:00:42]  They didn't act right.
[00:00:44]  And so we lost.
[00:00:45]  There was a big, only less than 40% of those that got saved during the Jesus movement are still believers.
[00:00:51]  Really?
[00:00:51]  I did not know that's the case.
[00:00:54]  But you're right.
[00:00:55]  The church wasn't.
[00:00:55]  Were you there in the Jesus movement, Mondo?
[00:00:57]  You were still in the church.
[00:00:58]  I was there, Jean.
[00:00:59]  He was pretty young.
[00:01:00]  I was there.
[00:01:01]  But you know what, Gene, you're so right.
[00:01:02]  I was born and raised in church, good fundamental church.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:18]  But they just didn't know.
[00:01:20]  Crazy kids.
[00:01:21]  A lot of crazy kids are God.
[00:01:23]  And they didn't know what to do with them.
[00:01:26]  But here's the problem.
[00:01:27]  They look, and it just feels like I'm bashing pastors.
[00:01:32]  I'm not bashing you, but I am.
[00:01:34]  I am one, so I have something to say.
[00:01:35]  You are one.
[00:01:36]  So we have to not, it's so easy to look at our four walls and our congregation.
[00:01:41]  That's a good thing.
[00:01:43]  We're looking at our group of people that we're there to shepherd.
[00:01:45]  That's a good thing.
[00:01:46]  But we cannot keep that alone.
[00:01:49]  And you can't, then what happens if we're not careful, we get over into, I've got to protect my people.
[00:01:56]  And so you're protecting your people.
[00:01:58]  And so what happened, little by little, people started believing that the separation of church and state was actually in the Constitution.
[00:02:04]  In fact, it may be in the Bible somewhere.
[00:02:07]  And it's just not the truth.
[00:02:08]  So the easiest thing to do is let's stay in the middle and don't offend anybody.
[00:02:14]  And then we'll see.
[00:02:15]  And if you get saved, that's great.
[00:02:17]  Welcome.
[00:02:18]  Just make sure you dress right.
[00:02:19]  And, you know, we try to keep it in the middle.
[00:02:22]  Well, you're looking at decades of that.
[00:02:23]  And suddenly, the veil was ripped apart and churches are being shown.
[00:02:29]  Pastors are being seen for who they really are.
[00:02:31]  And I believe this congregations now are going, so what are you going to do?
[00:02:35]  What do we do about this?
[00:02:36]  Are we going to meet?
[00:02:37]  Is the church going to meet?
[00:02:38]  The enemy is trying to shut down the church, Jim Lori, because what he did, he tried to close us, shut us down.
[00:02:46]  Then he put a mask to cover our voice.
[00:02:48]  That's the whole thing.
[00:02:49]  Listen, you can think it's about COVID.
[00:02:51]  No, it's about the eradication of the believer.

=== Take A Stand Wherever You're At (00:43) ===

[00:02:55]  This is, don't think this is about a disease or a virus.
[00:02:59]  This is about right and wrong.
[00:03:01]  That's right.
[00:03:01]  Good and evil.
[00:03:02]  It's not even right versus left.
[00:03:04]  It's about good and evil here.
[00:03:06]  And this is why we're in the fight of our lives.
[00:03:08]  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.
[00:03:17]  And you think, well, and this is one thing I want to encourage those of you that are my age or older.
[00:03:22]  It's real easy to believe, well, my time has passed.
[00:03:24]  We'll leave that for the younger group.
[00:03:26]  No, no, listen.
[00:03:28]  Those of you over 65, you own the country.
[00:03:32]  Yes.
[00:03:33]  You have the money.
[00:03:34]  Right.
[00:03:34]  That's it.
[00:03:35]  You have the money.