Great Awakening Precursor? Americans Interest In God ReGrowing?

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Great Awakening Precursor? Americans Interest In God ReGrowing?

March 2, 2023

The Barna Group released a report earlier this month based on a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults conducted from Oct. 21-31, 2022, that found 44% of U.S. adults described themselves as “more open to God today than I was before the pandemic.” At the same time, the overwhelming majority of adults (77%) say they believe in a higher power, while 74% indicated a desire to grow spiritually. “Though the trajectory of Christian commitment in the U.S. has been on a downward scale and is in need of urgent interventions, our new data gave Christian leaders cause for hope,” said Barna Group CEO David Kinnaman, the report’s author. Majorities of all generations, including younger Americans, told pollsters they would like to grow spiritually. Generation X and millennials were the most likely to want to grow spiritually, with 77% of respondents belonging to both generations experiencing what Kinnaman referred to as “spiritual hunger.” Seventy-three percent of the youngest group of American adults, Generation Z, and 72% of baby boomers said the same…

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Info given people is likely filled with falsehood(s).

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… or interest in anything outside of, new to me, or that appears to offer something not part of “the [current] feeling of what’s happening now”. Hence, just one of the many “problems of God”. Most likely any coming religious hype of “a return to God” nothing more than a “marketing Op” exploiting the latent sense of fear (pandemics, Russia, UAPs, feel free to add your favorite to this list) to refill those pews and coffers [and possibly a very subtle nod to the new Kelsey Grammer offering (no pun intended)]. After all, one might find one’s self in need of 30 pieces of silver in the near future.

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… the desire to “grow spiritually” may just be a way of saying / expressing that they’d like to simply feel more human than that do at present.

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If nothing else, it’s a result of people – religious and nonreligious alike – feeling the reality that we live in an increasingly inhuman culture. And a culture can only get so far down the inhuman path before it comes apart at the seams.

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We first need to define “God”…that means something different to many people! My generation was tricked into thinking that the “God” of the Old Testament is the Creator of all. Turns out that was because of a mistranslation of the Hebrew word, “elohim”, which is plural, NOT singular. Mauro Biglino has done a lifetime of work to give us the more correct translations of key words He teams up with Anglican Priest, Paul A. Wallis to demonstrate the O. T. stories are something quite different from what we were taught!!