{“The Decade of Evangelism” [continued]}[5th January 1991]

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It* might not have been altogether too late* if the question had been addressed: why do revivals, however successful in the short run, always fail (ie lose the numbers they gained)** when they peter*** out some years later?

C[ircles] A[nalysis] & S[ynthesis] suggests that this has to do with a failure to turn at C and return on the i[nner] c[ircle].

In Christian terms, this can be resolved into a choice between predominance of Love and Law; and the follow-up to Revival almost invariable involves Law (ie organisation, doctrine, covenant etc.) to the virtual exclusion of Love.****

*[See last previous entry]

**[Age & death?]

***[sic...]

****[But what if those revived/revivalists who do make the turn at C internalise their motivation through Love, eschewing Law, organisation, &c, become thereby effectively invisible to the outer world?]

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