7770	Forums / Theology Forum / Operating In The Gifts...	on: March 06, 2007, 02:58:43 PM
I would love to go back to the early church days. The devoted themselves to the apostles doctrine to the fellowship to breaking the bread and to prayer. I do not look at church history as a straight line where we are growing in knowledge, but as peaks and valleys. Any time in history where there is a peak is what has helped us get through the valleys.  The logic of this is that we long for revival so that we can experience the effects that the early church experience warts and all. There are reasons why the church is in the valley today and to fail to attribute that paradigm of comparison would be to neglect the reality of Gods workings by His Spirit in revival. Arguing with that historical perspective gives us a clearer view of the reasons we are in the desperate state we are in today.