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*** 40 Predictions for 1996 ***


1. A reflective spirit will come over evangelicals, initiating several years of serious self-examination resulting in the discovery of just how far we have drifted from the shores of orthodoxy.

2. The 80's style up-tempo-cheerleader-performance pace in worship music will fade faster than Sunday school bussing, and be replaced by a more pensive, reflective, mellow, (soulful, almost blues) 'balm in Gilead' style of music.

3. Promisekeepers will rally more than a million men for their gatherings, but the February ministers conference will be an attendance disappointment falling far below initial estimates of 70,000 ministers.

4. The latest idea among awakening churches will be a newly scheduled service designed for 'nothing by prayer.'

5. Evangelical pastors will bury the remains of the success movement, sending the surviving success 'n leadership entrepreneurs scrambling for new product lines.

6. The now-in-charge boomers will rapidly become the conservatives, attempting to cling to the 'gains' of our revolution becoming very much like the traditionalists we overthrew.

7. The term 'church growth' will all but disappear, being replaced by the newer phrase, 'church health'

8. Books on doctrine and theology will dominate the marketplace as the church seeks to rediscover what it really stands for, if anything.

9. Few people will care about what is happening in the 'superchurches' -- and the coming Millennial babies and younger Xers won't know the name 'Bill Hybels' any better than they know 'Jack Hyles'.

10. Alan Keyes won't win any Republican primaries even though he should.

11. Evangelicals will half-heartedly support Bob Dole as he loses next November.

12. 40% of professed evangelicals will vote for Bill Clinton as they chuckle their way home from refinancing their home and church mortgages at a 6%-fixed rate.

13. Evangelicals will forge a new peace with Roman Catholics not only officially but [more so] through adopting Catholic role models to admire (Mother Theresa) and absorbing the writings of influential Catholic authors (Neuhaus).

14. Middle-aged boomers, now able to see the 'end of the row' will now decide that a simpler life, smaller house, lower salary, and less famous pastorate would be a good thing, leaving those who scrambled to the 'top' perplexed that they are no longer envied.

15. The number of Americans on the net will double to 50 million by the end of the year, 'flattening' organizations and denominations, and changing forever the nature of publishing.

16. Increasing tensions with Russia will raise specters of a 'cold peace' after Boris Yeltsin is not elected in June.

17. The latest push in church planting will be 'Xer churches' but the boomers will resist the notion saying, "What's wrong with the way we do worship?' (Once the revolution is over most revolutionaries become conservatives.)

18. There will be a resurgence of interest in the devotional classics, the early church fathers, fed especially by their easy availability on the Internet.

19. The 'Christian contemporary music industry' will make its contribution the America's GNP of $1.2 Billion (that's 'B').

20. The home school movement will usher in the home college movement as universities and colleges scramble to be first on the net - by the end of this year you will be able to work on every degree except a doctorate on-line, (and a Ph.D. too, if you're satisfied with a bogus one).

21. Denominations will follow the Southern Baptist's lead as para-church and profiteers increasingly perform th

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