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Mike Metzger

Metzger says that postmillennialism fosters a broader social concern than does premillennialism. The new thought he brings to the table is that social concern can lead to greater evangelistic effectiveness: Business, art, food, technology, and every achievement of human civilization as they ought to be also goes into eternity. If this is a proper view of the end, it justifies investing more in renewing culture than we currently do today. And – get this – by making the world a better place, we might discover a better way to win people to Christ. The greatest revival ever in Japan came as a result of General Douglas Macarthur’s cultural reforms after World War II. They included a new constitution producing a paradigm shift in Japanese thinking: Hirohito was no longer considered divine. Over the next few years, over 2,000,000 Japanese came to faith in Christ. Renewing culture greased the wheels for conversion. That sure sounds like a win-win for the world and the church.

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