Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example. But the vast majority of born-again religious experiences seem to come quite simply and quietly, at least as they are recollected later. In March 1976, when President Carter decided to tell a press conference how he had "formed a very close, intimate, personal relationship with God through Christ," he added: ''It wasn't mysterious. It might have been the same kind of experience as millions of people have who become Christians in a deeply personal way." Says Marabel Morgan of her own experience, which took place when she was working as a beautician and rinsing a client...
...prosperity. The real progress of the faith is less visible. It goes on at the grass-roots level from one convert to another in thousands of local congregations, some of them quite small and isolated. It is a highly personal brotherhood. And for most Evangelicals the experience of receiving Christ is the principal event of any Christian life...
Perhaps partly owing to a shortage of warmth, and even more to a loss of religious authority, the four churches that are the epitome of the cultured Protestant Establishment?United Methodist, United Presbyterian. Episcopal and United Church of Christ (Congregational) ?have suffered a net loss of 2.7 million members over the past decade. Conversely, Jimmy
...believes in the Second Coming and the end of the world, and he regards humanist faith in progress as naive. Says he: "The most elaborate programs are useless when compared to the simple training of the heart." He is little impressed by the spectacle of what he calls the "Christ circuses" put on by some other Evangelicals. "This is a grass-roots movement of Christian faith which is riding a reaction to dead churches...
...talk about Jesus Christ because science had pretty well told us that it was impossible to believe in God and the Bible." An increasing number of scientists would now appear to agree with the almost Pascalian argument of Astronomer Robert Jastrow, founder and director of NASA'S Goddard Institute. Since it is impossible to prove whether life on earth was created by the will of some supreme £ creative being, or evolved spontaneously, says Jastrow, the choice either way is "an act of faith." Even among highly secular folk there is a general disposition to assume, as never before, that...