Getting Moody today…

 I love studying spiritual leaders, poets and dreamers, who have high impact way past their lives. Makes you think about what’s possible with your own life, and what patterns you leave. I also, like looking at places in history when things wake up, illuminate so things can be interpreted, these spiritual keyholes always are helpful viewing zones.

 Going old school today, studying DL Moody, and the spiritual awakenings in the 1800’s-both his social work, and his preaching are high impact and interesting. Multi-racial and denominational. I’m studying spiritual revivals, but specifically ones which impacted society in positive ways (feeding the poor, overcoming racism, offering jobs etc), like MLK. DL Moody was a good man. Fun studying spiritual giants.

 I also like that he didn’t think he was a good speaker. Even though he spoke all over England, Scotland and Ireland as well as the USA for many years. Fun also when you’ve personally been impacted by a person’s legacy. My dad went to school in Chicago under Moody’s covering. Amazing that generations after someone is dead, there is still a lingering covering and good fruits being produced. Anyway, i liked his humility….

“I know there are many better orators and preachers than me, often even in the room. All I can say, is that the Lord uses me.” DL Moody.

He was also very cross denominational, working with lay leaders from any church which wanted to help. MLK had this same ecumenism, which allowed larger Kingdom impact than a single denominational way of thinking, and in King’s case, changed the whole nation. With globalism isn’t an  ecumenical approach essential in order to actually be helpful.

 MLK talked lots about how our spiritual technology and distribution needed to catch up to our material tech-spiritual structure catch up with content. Still true.  Giant’s are always taller than their times. And their hearts are more yielded. Fun study. I like sitting under giants, and peeping through historical keyholes! Searching for good fruit left long behind. Fruit that’s still feeding people. It’s good to study those who were able to get spiritually mature in life. Helps make a clearing in the forest for us all!