Just like Israel

I am working on my senior research paper, a 25 page paper on something to do with the Kingdom of God. Needless to say, I had a hard time coming up with a topic. But I have decided- I am going to talk about the Great Emergence Timeline.

If you are not familiar with the Great Emergence, visit this site: www.thegreatemergence.com. Basically the results are this: every 500 years Christianity goes through a radical change.


We start with Christ in 32 A.D. Christians were strong and solid in their faith. Because of persecution, there were no Christians who didn't know why they were Christians.

We go now to around 500 A.D. The time of the Fall of Rome, and Gregory the Great. You find monasticism now, because Christianity is legal (which means no persecution). There are some Christians who are upset at how "easy" the Christian life is. There are Christians who are shallow in their faith, and church corruption begins to grow larger and larger as the formation of the Catholic church starts.

Fast forward to the Great Schism in 1054- Where corruption and pride is so large that two men refuse to step down as Pope, and end up splitting the church entirely.

500 years later, 1517- the Great Reformation. Martin Luther and John Calvin and all of their friends. They were sick of church corruption, and decided they needed to change it.

And here we are- we can already see the church drastically changing, but what will they remember 500 years about us?

We are seeing a church meet in LA night clubs, we see new music, new styles of worship, new ways of sharing the Gospel, and a drastic change from the ways we did them even ten years ago.