Deaf Anthology: Deaf Anthology #32: "Deaf Revival"

John: "We have been invited to a Deaf Revival tonight."

Janet: "Are they having another CD release party?"

Joan: "Not that, it's the local fundamentalist church."

Janet: "I love the "Deaf Revival" hard-metal rock group from southern Kentucky, known for their Death theme, the lyrics of "God's Herd" protrayed Christians as hyprocrites."

John: "The only hard-metal performance I have seen are the Buzzhorn at Summerfest where Bert Zweber plays the guitar, his parents are Deaf, they are still disconnected from world."

Joan: "You ain't going to wear that Deaf Theologians Society t-shirt, it's inappropriate." (The Johnsons took off in their Matrix)

John: "The Old Guards are confiscating NIVs as contrabands."

Frank: "Welcome to the Deaf Revival, Deaf Evangelist, from Tennessee is... (Old Guards chained the exit doors, a fire code violation, mark that down)

Fred: "John, good to see you, your first time here?"

John: "No, actually it's our last time." (smile)

Thomas: "I've just heard that our brother, Sean, been saved recently, Praise the Lord! Sean will give us his testimony."

Sean: "It's not what you think, I was drowning at the Y, the lifeguard saved my life."

Thomas: "We have a slide show from our camp in Tennesseee, free Deaf youth week sessions, parents, we encourage your Deaf children to come..."

John: "The director was quoted, in an interview, that it's a Controlled Atmosphere Ministry Program, similiar to the Communist re-education camps, after the fall of Saigon. Our Deaf children are transported there as cattle herds."

Joan: "I think our Deaf children would be better off at Camp Aspen, which have good reputation, as there is intellectual freedoms."

Thomas: "I encourage everyone to go to a Deaf Christian College."

John: "Often their colleges are unaccredited, students unable to obtain Pell grants, staff of questionable credentials, and limited career opportunities."

Joan: "We objected to Thomas being biased with his negative criticism of Gallaudet, as a campus full of drug addicts, homosexuals, while not admitting that he graduated from a Deaf Christian College in Kansas City, whose director resigned after committing adultary with a female student."

Thomas: "Jesus is God, God is Jesus..." (still thumbing the Bible)

John: "I wonder where Thomas gets his license to preach, from a Cracker Jack box?"

Joan: "Pot-luck are our modern day indulgences, we're now in purgutory until someone converts, or the hour-glass runs out.

Pat: "Frank also graduated from a Deaf Christian College, but why isn't he promoted to be a pastor here, the interpreter is still the director of the deaf ministry, no wonder there is no growth."

John: "I notice that the church have its own Spanish pastor, the Hispanics with their own congregation, this is a sanctuary mostly of illegal aliens. I ought to get rid of the Spanish pastor and be mainstreamed like the rest of us, and use a Spanish interpreter instead. When will the audist pastor realized that we exist. The Deaf never understood his sermons anyway as the volunteer interpreter is neither fluent in ASL nor knowledgable in Deaf Culture.

Joan: "We Deaf have been spiritually-oppressed since the Cross."

Pat: "The Deaf learn more about Jesus from a guy holding the John 3:16 placard behind the home plate during a baseball telecast, than these Deaf Revivals.

John: "The churches have abandoned Social Gospels, letting Independent Living Centers pick up the slack.

Pat: "Their practice of secondary fundamentalism (separatism), judgemental attitudes, legalism are the major factors in their decline of influrences within our society."

Thomas: "I have a confession, there is a Great Awakening among the Deaf in America, a Deaf Reformation movement, Deafhood is having an impact on our churches, I have decided to attend the upcoming April Deaf Summit meeting in Louieville, where we can established our own Deaf denomination."

John: "Fundamentalists have a catholic mindset on salvation."

Pat: "We'll contact the Deaf Reformed Ministries to set-up a Connecticut mini-conference this fall."

John: "Now, that's a real Deaf Revival."

Revised (2/18/08)