The Right Social Justice Revolution and What Was Right About The Jesus Revolution - Church Then & Now E17

Ethan Hoover & Matthew Maher discuss the Civil Rights & Jesus Movements, if they were Biblical, and what impact they had on the church then and now. Listen in and join the conversation!

Show Notes:

• Intro
• Recap on Episode 16 (The Age of Reason & Revival)
• Skipping through the 1800’s into the 1900’s
  • But what happened in the 1800’s in a nutshell?
    • Global missions exploded (mainly out of the United States)
• Billy Graham cuts a rope of segregation in the 50’s, which thrusts us into the 60’s, the Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Movement
  • Biblical or unbiblical?
    • Yes, Biblically based.
    • The true definition of social justice.
• Example of Israel’s laws
• “God is the governing authority of civility and over society.”
• The purpose & foundation of the civil rights movement was fought in two different methods
  • Violent & non-violent
  • Malcom X vs. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • What is the Nation of Islam compared to traditional Islam?
• Jesus Movement
  • Was it good or bad?
• What happened to the church between the civil rights movement/Jesus movement and now?
• Outro

Resources: 

• How Should A Christian View the Civil Rights Movement? https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-civil-rights.html
• What Is The Nation of Islam? https://www.gotquestions.org/Nation-of-Islam.html
• What Was The Jesus Movement? https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Movement.html
• Is The Asbury Revival A Genuine Work of God? https://www.gotquestions.blog/Asbury-revival.html

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