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Lessons from History that that Can Help Us Understand the Chaos in America in 2020

by Ralph D. Winter

These excerpts from Winter’s lectures for the course, Foundations of the World Christian Movement, can help us understand the historical context for American’s current social upheaval. Winter’s insights and analysis can give hope. He saw a pattern in history of chaos followed by societal flourishing, which he challenges believers to purposely work toward. A major concern of Winter’s in his last years was that evangelicals would become aware of the schemes of the evil one and engage in organized efforts to overcome evils in society as well as in the realm of disease. In this way, he strongly believed, God’s reputation could be restored and the peoples of the earth could be winsomely encouraged to choose to be part of God’s Kingdom.

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Reflection: Scripture as International Development in Isaiah 32 and 34: Societal Chaos

by Beth Snodderly

The need for international development exists because societies and their land are in chaos to one degree or another. In Isaiah 32 societal chaos is being overcome by the intervention of God’s Spirit. In this chapter we see a metaphorical image of the consequences for societies whose people practice ungodliness, who use wicked schemes to leave the hungry empty, and who destroy the poor with their lies: “The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever” (Isa. 32:14).

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Reflection: Societal Chaos: Comparisons to the Middle Ages

by Mark Mihalyov, WCIU MA Student

The Church in America is being distracted and deceived on the left and on the right. The result for us is severe social chaos. The “Christian” culture displaced peoples are now exposed to is in many ways reminiscent of that of the Middle Ages; more focused on forms and traditions than on power and passion for missionary service.

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