If revival means a fresh movement of God's life in us as we obey the Word of God, then we are in desperate need of revival today.
We are called to love God with all our hearts, souls, mind and strength and our neighbour as ourselves.
That means that we should devote our lives to prayer, to the Word, to doing the Word and to sharing what we have with others.
True revival is not about coming to meetings where we fall on the ground and roll around, then go off to eat some fast food with our friends with the same total lack of concern for others and spiritual blindness we had before the meeting.
Genuine Revival in China
This video reveals something of the beautiful Christlike spirit of those Chinese Christians who are true examples of what it means to love and serve Jesus Christ. It seems that genuine revival thrives in an atmosphere of government repression.
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The Revolutionary Message of John's Gospel
If people just believed the message of John's gospel they wouldn't be attracted to all kinds of fancy and unbiblical spiritual sensations. Because John's gospel is ABSOLUTELY REVOLUTIONARY and I am not sure how many of us believe it yet.
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Towards a Culture of Discernment in Full-Gospel/Charismatic Churches
I was brought up in a part of the Anglican church where we were encouraged to read and study the Bible for ourselves. We were taught that the beliefs we have concerning theology and the gospel should be based on what the Scriptures say, and not merely on the pronouncements of "God's chosen leaders". Of course no church movement has really been able to follow this principle through fully until now, but it is a noble thing to at least espouse the principle.
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FINALLY - an apology and repentance from a major Charismatic leader
Site author's note: It is refreshing that one of the "big name" leaders personally associated with many of the people who foolishly endorsed Todd Bentley has had the guts to talk about it, and raise SOME of the deeper issues that this whole fiasco has highlighted. Let us pray for Dutch Sheets and hope that this will help trigger some pretty serious REPENTANCE and RE-THINKING amongst those who believe they are called to LEAD and TEACH the people of GOD. - MF
A STATEMENT and APPEAL REGARDING LAKELAND
-Dutch Sheets. (Aug 21, 2008).
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Todd Bentley leaves his wife
Todd Bentley has broken up with his wife and has filed for legal separation. How could this happen if his heart was truly filled with the love of God? Whatever was happening at Lakeland obviously was pretty compatible with this kind of thing.
It has come out on freshfire . ca, the ministry site of Todd Bentley, the following information:
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