What is God doing?

Can God use disaster?

Nothing frustrates me more than over optimistic claims of imminent world revival from high profile conference speakers raising the excitement levels of the assembled Christian audience. I ask myself questions such as How? And Why? And When? Because the God I know works through people’s hearts and I need to see that happening.
Last week I read “Reappearing Church” by Mark Sayers, published last year, who starts by asking us to imagine a world following a major war between the great powers such as the USA, Russia or China. Or, a global flue pandemic killing millions across the world. He outlines other disaster scenarios before getting to the point.
Major disasters in the past, such as two World Wars, the French and Marxist Revolutions have each led to significant crises in thought, attitude and culture. Sayers describes how this may result in a “Cultural Renewal”. A change in world view, in commonly held beliefs and priorities though not necessarily spiritual attitudes. That may happen later.

Transition point
For Sayers culture changed significantly after each of these “transition points” either for good or bad. Are we at a “transition point” today?
Throughout my life politics in the UK has been dominated by a debate over how much to tax and spend. It happened at the last election. Today we have a (previously) low spending government spending far more than their opposition ever dreamt possible.
Over the last 5-10 years we have seen “woke” culture take over our society with high profile figures like Trevor Phillips losing their jobs for misusing a word or two. Identity politics focusing on individual “personal realisation,” has dominated Labour with little if any fight back from the Tories. Both largely accepted that this is the culture we live in.
We have seen well known Christians such as Franklin Graham and Gavin Calver of the Evangelical Alliance no-platformed, with City Councils placed under pressure to cancel bookings for meeting venues. We were concerned that this could go further with schools refusing use of assembly halls to churches.
In the Universities, speakers from both left and right have been no platformed. How Liberal is it to no-platform Trevor Phillips, Germain Greer or Peter Tatchell?

Today
One of the most remarkable take-aways from the recent Labour leadership election and shadow cabinet appointments is the relegation of “woke” culture from the discourse. Keir Starmer is hardly “woke”! I have not heard it from the Tories either.
Are we seeing cultural change? Is this a possible transition point? Will it lead from Cultural Renewal to Spiritual Revival? I would really like to know what others think about this.

Would the Pro Christians out there please help out the Amateur Christian.

I will write further on this shortly.