Well not the latest church stuff, but old church stuff. :)
I've been re-reading Finney's Memoirs, the complete restored text published in 1989 (his original Memoirs had been highly edited and two men restored all the edited text) and the book never ceases to amaze me with the displays of the power of God. This is from chapter 11 where he goes to De Kalb NY and is really pretty tame compared to other stories in the book. I just thought this was interesting, especially in light of how most Christians don't believe in falling under the power of God and most think it's a pretty recent phenomenon that don't study church history. Of course the first falling under the power of God is in the Bible. :)
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FROM Gouverneur I went to De Kalb, another village still farther north, some sixteen miles, I think. Here were a Presbyterian church and minister; but the church was small, and the minister seemed not to have a very strong hold upon the people. However, I think he was decidedly a good man. I began to hold meetings in De Kalb, in different parts of the town. The village was small and the people were very much scattered. The country was new, and the roads were new and bad. But a revival commenced immediately, and went forward with a good deal of power, for a place where the inhabitants were so much scattered.
A few years before, there had been a revival there under the labors of the Methodists. It had been attended with a good deal of excitement; and many cases had occurred of, what the Methodists call, "Falling under the power of God." This the Presbyterians had resisted, and, in consequence, a bad state of feeling had arisen, between the Methodists and the Presbyterians; the Methodists accusing the Presbyterians of having opposed the revival among them because of these cases of falling under the power of God. As nearly as I could learn, there was a good deal of truth in this, and the Presbyterians had been decidedly in error.
I had not preached long, before, one evening, just at the close of my sermon, I observed a man fall from his seat near the door; and the people gathered around him to take care of him. From what I saw, I was satisfied that it was a case of falling under the power of God, as the Methodists would express it, and supposed that it was a Methodist. I must say that I had a little fear that it might reproduce that state of division and alienation that had before existed. But on inquiry I learned that it was one of the principal members of the Presbyterian church, that had fallen. And it was remarkable that during this revival, there were several cases of this kind among the Presbyterians, and none among the Methodists. This led to such confessions and explanations among the members of the different churches, as to secure a state of great cordiality and good feeling among them.
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Cool huh? God took care of the division over that. :)