You have a very distorted and "protestant view" of Christian hsitory.
Every age, every decade, every century and every epoch of Christian history has experienced a powerful movement of the Holy Spirit. Every Christian era helped preserved, through the power of the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Scritures. It is extreme arrogance to think that our age or the Protestant Reformation is the epitome of Christian history.
If Christian historians would look back at our age in the next 500 years, they would probably call genertion x and the twentieth century the most evil, hopeless and pagan era of Christian history.
Murder of millions of unborn children, Christian people dropping atomic bombs on civilian centers and murdering 100,000 within seconds,
perverse Hollywood and television etc. etc. etc. Notwithstanding these eveils, the Holy Spirit is doing a mighty work on the earth today through the Holy Spirit in peoples hearts. The Kingdom of God is not observed with physical eyes, but with the eyes of the heart.
It is because God's Kingdom is not like worldly kingdoms. God's Kingdom operates in peoples recreated spirits and by the power of the Holy Spirit living in people. |
