Disintegrated Anticipation!

A number of years ago a friend offered me a critic of the "Charismatic Movement." He coined the phrase disintegrated anticipation. It meant that we are always looking for the next big thing to come along and solve all of our problems! And invariably it's not related to anything we are currently doing. Of course it never does and we still have to read scripture, pray and witness to a lost world. The latest fad comes and goes and wise Christians batten down the hatches in the knowledge that things will return to normal sooner or later. Did the church grow? Were lives changed? That remains to be seen but in my experience we are left with a few more disillusioned Christians and a needy world that still waits for the church to "wise up."
I once did a count of the things that were going to change everything and that have come and largely gone in the past twenty years; there were over thirty of them!
I think Christians in the west are desperate to see God move but be careful what you put your hope in.