The Great Evangelical Disaster Revisited

In the 30 years since Dr Francis Schaeffer’s The Great Evangelical Disaster showed how what was supposed to be ‘the Bible-believing evangelical church’ was largely becoming ineffectual and abandoned by God as a result of becoming increasingly dominated by a new ‘super-spirituality’. Peter C Glover’s The Great Evangelical Disaster Revisited not only shows how evangelicals failed entirely to heed Schaeffer’s warning but identifies those chiefly responsible for the disaster and how today’s evangelicals have learned little from it. He makes a case for why in praying for revival modern evangelicals are simply wasting their breath. Instead he argues how God himself has laid down three biblical principles – three R’s – whenever ‘disaster’ has come upon the church: Restoration (of the Word), Reformation (of church & worship), Revival (of the people); and always in that order.

In the 30 years since Dr Francis Schaeffer’s The Great Evangelical Disaster showed how what was supposed to be ‘the Bible-believing evangelical church’ was largely becoming ineffectual and abandoned by God as a result of becoming increasingly dominated by a new ‘super-spirituality’. Peter C Glover’s The Great Evangelical Disaster Revisited not only shows how evangelicals failed entirely to heed Schaeffer’s warning but identifies those chiefly responsible for the disaster and how today’s evangelicals have learned little from it. He makes a case for why in praying for revival modern evangelicals are simply wasting their breath. Instead he argues how God himself has laid down three biblical principles – three R’s – whenever ‘disaster’ has come upon the church: Restoration (of the Word), Reformation (of church & worship), Revival (of the people); and always in that order.

Peter C. Glover is a British writer & journalist specializing in international affairs, energy and faith issues. His articles on Christian and faith issues are regularly published in the US, UK and Canada. For 8 years (1996-2004) he was co-founder and director of the Christian Research Network (CRN) which researched contemporary movements in the modern church, especially the evangelical church. He was a contributor to, and editor of, the CRN Journal throughout this period. He also edited and co-author of the bestselling book Signs & Wonders Movement Exposed (Day One Publications). He is a licensed Lay Reader in the Anglican Church and spent six years as co-pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, a Reformed church in Clacton, Essex in the UK. He is married to Sara and they live in a small village near Colchester, England. He plays golf and loves music.