Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went to a Bible study group with my wife. It was just a Bible study, but it angered me. I thought, 'These people talk like they have God in their hip pocket.' But I went eight Wednesdays in a row. The last Wednesday evening, while everyone was praying, I got down on my knees and gave my life to the Lord and I have never been the same since. It was an emotional experience, but it hasn 't passed. That was nine years...
...suburb. The speaker, Lee Buck, 54, is a senior vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co. "Before, I wanted to be successful in the world," says Buck. "Now I want to exalt the Lord. I want to stay a businessman, but I want people to know that God changes lives. You don't drop out of the world because you become a Christian." Buck now spends his free time preaching to far-flung church and business groups...
...Northern wing turned to premillennialism, the belief that Christ's return was imminent and that society would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical leaders, for example, did little to support civil rights legislation in the 1960s...
...Evangelical with a social conscience you've got one of God's true saints." Saints work miracles and are very rare indeed. Evangelicals make swarms of converts, a good many of whom, as in all religions, do not remain strong in their conviction. Even so, the burgeoning new empire of Evangelicalism has already challenged the more staid religious establishment and set off hopeful echoes in the national spirit...
Almost by definition (the Greek word evangelion means gospel), Evangelicals also believe in bringing the word of God to their fellow man, and today they are bringing it more exuberantly than ever. The faithful throng to gaudy superchurches with 5.000 to 10,000 seats, green shag wall-to-wall carpeting, pit orchestras and Jesus rock bands. From such places the message rolls out, often multiplied many times over on TV programs or projected by satellite to impromptu global parishes of 20 million or more at a time. The message rings out, too, at the early morning pre-work prayer meetings...