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73-683: The roots of the Bay Revival lie in the Brownsville Revival period from 1995 through to 2000, led by John Kilpatrick and evangelist Steve Hill in Pensacola, Florida , which is reported to have been attended by four million people. During this period, Kilpatrick became well known as he traveled increasingly across the United States, encouraging pastors to pursue "revival". Kilpatrick eventually left Brownsville in 2003 and moved to Daphne to undertake

146-458: A 3-year revival which saw about 250,000 visitors. The revival is also significant because the ministry of Steve Gray and a significant number of his followers remain active in Kansas City, where 85% of the congregation moved in 2000. The ministry he pastors, World Revival Church, emphasizes the attitude and mission of revival. In 2001 there was a mini-split which occurred between the leadership of

219-507: A Sunday, the revival began, evangelist Steve Hill was the guest speaker, having been invited by Kilpatrick. Later, Hill and Kilpatrick, told of "a mighty wind" that blew through the church, an account that quickly spread across the Pentecostal community. Kilpatrick had been talking "revival" for several months. As the nightly revival meetings continued, Hill canceled all plans to go to Russia, and preached several revival services each week for

292-561: A church in the Dallas area where he served as senior pastor. After a long bout with cancer, Hill died in March 2014. Cooley left in October 2003. Kilpatrick resigned as senior pastor in 2003 to form an evangelistic association of his own. Until 2006, the church continued to hold special Friday-night services that were a continuation of the revival. Bob Giovoni attended this with his wife and later became

365-589: A cult process since the revivalist movements tend to rise and fall. Others study it as minority discontent with the status quo or, after the revivalists gain wide acceptance, as a majority that tends to impose its own standards. The Grundtvigian and Home Mission revival movements arose in Denmark after 1860 and reshaped religion in that country, and among immigrants to America. Norway saw several prominent revival movements within Orthodox Lutheranism stemming from

438-576: A denominational decline. One follow-on revival, often called the Smithton Outpouring , occurred in the small town of Smithton, Missouri, at Smithton Community Church. It was significant because it was not connected with the Assemblies of God. The pastor, Steve Gray, visited the Brownsville Revival in 1996 while in the midst of personal turmoil, returned to his church of 150 members and hosted

511-561: A greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit . In 1902 the American evangelists Reuben Archer Torrey and Charles McCallon Alexander conducted meetings in Melbourne, Australia, resulting in more than 8,000 converts. News of this revival travelled fast, igniting a passion for prayer and an expectation that God would work in similar ways elsewhere. Torrey and Alexander were involved in the beginnings of

584-567: A group of Anglican clergymen led by John Henry Newman and John Keble began the Oxford Movement . However its objective was to renew the Church of England by reviving certain Roman Catholic doctrines and rituals, thus distancing themselves as far as possible from evangelical enthusiasm. Many say that Australia has never been visited by a genuine religious revival as in other countries, but that

657-565: A million people were converted in Britain. Missionaries subsequently carried the movement abroad; it was especially influential on the Pentecostal movement emerging in California . Unlike earlier religious revivals that pivoted on powerful preaching, the revival of 1904–05 relied primarily on music and on paranormal phenomena as exemplified by the visions of Evan Roberts. The intellectual emphasis of

730-517: A politically conservative Methodism forestalled revolution among the largely uneducated working class by redirecting its energies toward spiritual rather than temporal affairs. The thesis has engendered strong debate among historians, and several have adopted and modified Halévy's thesis. Some historians, such as Robert Wearmouth, suggest that evangelical revivalism directed working-class attention toward moral regeneration, not social radicalism. Others, including E. P. Thompson , claim that Methodism, though

803-708: A proto-Romanticism that mixed with Christian worship to produce a tertium quid. The Methodist revival of John Wesley , Charles Wesley and George Whitefield in England and Daniel Rowland , Howel Harris and William Williams Pantycelyn in Wales and the Great Awakening in America prior to the Revolution. A similar (but smaller scale) revival in Scotland took place at Cambuslang (then

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876-417: A revival that was led primarily by uneducated laymen, the so-called "peasant prophets". During the 18th century, England saw a series of Methodist revivalist campaigns that stressed the tenets of faith set forth by John Wesley and that were conducted in accordance with a careful strategy. In addition to stressing the evangelist combination of "Bible, cross, conversion, and activism," the revivalist movement of

949-613: A series of prayer meetings in New York. By the beginning of 1858 the congregation was crowded, often with a majority of businessmen. Newspapers reported that over 6,000 were attending various prayer meetings in New York, and 6,000 in Pittsburgh. Daily prayer meetings were held in Washington, D.C. at 5 different times to accommodate the crowds. Other cities followed the pattern. Soon, a common mid-day sign on business premises read, "We will re-open at

1022-507: A small movement, had a politically regressive effect on efforts for reform. Some historians question the Halévy thesis. Eric Hobsbawm claims that Methodism was not a large enough movement to have been able to prevent revolution. Alan Gilbert suggests that Methodism's supposed antiradicalism has been misunderstood by historians, suggesting that it was seen as a socially deviant movement and the majority of Methodists were moderate radicals. Early in

1095-607: A son or a daughter. It's time to put off the grave clothes," he says, "those who live in a tomb of addiction or of fear are in bondage and God wants to set them free." John Kilpatrick teaches on revival in the church, drawing from his experience at Brownsville. He says "revival is not for the saved, it's time for the Church to go after and accept those who are in sin. That's what Revival is all about. God catches His fish first and then cleans them". The Bay Revival has developed its own distinct sound with original songs written and performed by Lydia Stanley, who has released two albums: Bay of

1168-649: A strong hold in the churches on the continent of Europe. In German-speaking Europe, Lutheran Johann Georg Hamann (1730–88) was a leader in the new wave of evangelicalism, the Erweckung , which spread across the land, cross-fertilizing with British movements. The movement began in the Francophone world in connection with a circle of pastors and seminarians at French-speaking Protestant theological seminaries in Geneva , Switzerland and Montauban , France, influenced inter alia by

1241-617: A videotape of the Father's Day service that sparked the revival showed it was far less dramatic than later claimed. The News Journal began a four-month investigation after former members told reporters that all was not as it appeared at the church. The series won George Polk awards from such groups as National Headliner, the Scripps-Howard Foundation, and the Society of Professional Journalists . Brownsville Assembly of God responded to

1314-585: A village), and is known as the Cambuslang Work . In the American colonies the First Great Awakening was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. It resulted from powerful preaching that deeply affected listeners (already church members) with a deep sense of personal guilt and salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ancient ritual and ceremony,

1387-544: A year, but in that period 100,000 converts were made. Begun as an effort to kindle nondenominational, nonsectarian spirituality, the Welsh revival of 1904–05 coincided with the rise of the labor movement, socialism, and a general disaffection with religion among the working class and youths. Placed in context, the short-lived revival appears as both a climax for Nonconformism and a flashpoint of change in Welsh religious life. The movement spread to Scotland and England, with estimates that

1460-445: Is Delia Knox, a well known Gospel singer who was paralyzed for 22.5 years after a car accident, but got out of her wheelchair and is now walking after attending. The video of her being prayed for by Nathan Morris has received over 400,000 hits on YouTube. Ed Reilly of Channel 7 Eye Witness News reported. The Channel 7 report also contains footage of Delia meeting her parents who were amazed to see her walking again. The preaching of

1533-761: Is not entirely true. The effect of the Great Awakening of 1858–59 was also felt in Australia fostered mainly by the Methodist Church. Records show that the Methodist Church grew by a staggering 72% between 1857 and 1864, while the Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians and other evangelicals also benefited. Evangelical fervor was its height during the 1920s with visiting evangelists, R. A. Torrey, Wilbur J. Chapman, Charles M. Alexander and others winning many converts in their Crusades. The Crusades of American evangelist Billy Graham in

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1606-830: The Le Reveil movement. In North America the Third Great Awakening began in 1857 onwards in Canada and spread throughout the English-speaking world including America and Australia. Significant names include Dwight L. Moody , Ira D. Sankey , William Booth and Catherine Booth (founders of the Salvation Army ), Charles Spurgeon and James Caughey . Hudson Taylor began the China Inland Mission and Thomas John Barnardo founded his famous orphanages. One representative

1679-507: The Pentecostal movement that began on Father's Day June 18, 1995, at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida . Characteristics of the Brownsville Revival movement, as with other Christian religious revivals, included acts of repentance by parishioners and a call to holiness , inspired by the manifestation of the Holy Spirit . Some of the occurrences in this revival fit the description of moments of religious ecstasy . More than four million people are reported to have attended

1752-547: The Second Great Awakening that began about 1800 and which reached out to non-believers, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were already church members. It changed their rituals, their piety, and their self-awareness. The Hungarian Baptist Church sprung out of revival with the perceived liberalism of the Hungarian Reformed Church during the late 1800s. Many thousands of people were baptized in

1825-588: The Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement . It also introduced a new form of religious expression to America: the Scottish camp meeting . A movement in Swiss, eastern French, German, and Dutch Protestant history known as le Réveil (German: die Erweckung , Dutch: Het Reveil ). Le Réveil was a revival of Protestant Christianity along conservative evangelical lines at a time when rationalism had taken

1898-842: The missionary work of early monks, from the 16th-century Protestant Reformation (and Catholic Counter-Reformation ) and from the uncompromising stance of the Covenanters in 17th-century Scotland and Ulster that came to Virginia and Pennsylvania with Presbyterians and other non-conformists. Its character formed part of the mental framework that led to the American War of Independence and the Civil War. The 18th-century Age of Enlightenment had two camps: those who identified humans as only intellectual beings, Rationalists , and those who believed humans to be only passionate beings, followers of Romanticism . The philosophy of Earl of Shaftesbury III led to

1971-414: The revival meetings from its beginnings in 1995 to around 2000. One writer offered this description of the revival in 1998: All told, more than 2.5 million people have visited the church's Monday prayer and Tues-through-Saturday evening revival services, where they sang rousing worship music and heard old-fashioned sermons on sin and salvation. After the sermons were over, hundreds of thousands accepted

2044-401: The 1950s had significant impact on Australian Churches. Stuart Piggin (1988) explores the development and tenacity of the evangelical movement in Australia, and its impact on Australian society. Evangelicalism arrived from Britain as an already mature movement characterized by commonly shared attitudes toward doctrine, spiritual life, and sacred history. Any attempt to periodize the history of

2117-454: The 19th century made efforts toward a universal appeal – rich and poor, urban and rural, and men and women. Special efforts were made to attract children and to generate literature to spread the revivalist message. Gobbett (1997) discusses the usefulness of historian Elie Halévy 's thesis explaining why England did not undergo a social revolution in the period 1790–1832, a time that appeared ripe for violent social upheaval. Halévy suggested that

2190-502: The 19th century the Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers had an important influence on the evangelical revival movement. Chalmers began life as a moderate in the Church of Scotland and an opponent of evangelicalism. During the winter of 1803–04, he presented a series of lectures that outlined a reconciliation of the apparent incompatibility between the Genesis account of creation and the findings of

2263-498: The Bay Revival focuses on calling people back to holy living with an emphasis on "the Blood of Jesus" and "the Cross". Having turned from a life of addiction, Nathan Morris encourages people to follow his example and turn to God. One of his messages is entitled, 'Loose that man, let him go' based on the story of Lazarus in verse John 11:44 . "Sin will make you a slave when God has called you to be

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2336-659: The Bible. Finney also conducted revival meetings in England, first in 1849 and later to England and Scotland in 1858–59. In New England , the renewed interest in religion inspired a wave of social activism, including abolitionism . In the West (now upper South), especially in Cane Ridge, Kentucky and Tennessee , the revival strengthened the Methodists and Baptists . The Churches of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) arose from

2409-623: The Brownville Revival Church and the leadership of the Brownville Revival School of Ministry. This split for many marked the end of the Revival. This led to the creation of The F.I.R.E. School of Ministry (Fellowship for International Revival and Evangelism) under the former leader of B.R.S.M., Dr. Michael Brown. B.R.S.M. continued to offer classes for several years before being merged into a Ministry of Tommy Tenney. As of Sep 2018

2482-544: The Fire School of Ministry was still operating in Concord NC. The meetings were criticized by some Christians and by the local news media. The Pensacola News Journal ran a series of investigative articles which focused on the donations raised during the meetings and where those funds went, as well as the claims of miraculous healings at the services and the spontaneity of the revival's beginnings. The newspaper revealed that

2555-662: The Great Awakening made religion intensely emotive to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption. Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom sees it as part of a "great international Protestant upheaval" that also created Pietism in Germany, the Evangelical Revival and Methodism in England. It brought Christianity to enslaved Americans and was a ground-breaking event in New England that challenged established authority. It incited rancor and division between

2628-626: The Holy Spirit Revival Worship, Volume 1 and Oh, What My Eyes Have Seen, Bay Revival Worship, Volume 2 . Stanley attended the Brownsville Revival in 1996, where she is said to have received her call to ministry. She had graduated from the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in 2004 and has served as worship leader at Church of His Presence in Mobile, AL. She has been interviewed by Sid Roth of It's Supernatural , who said, "She

2701-509: The Holy Spirit"). The revival continued in Mobile until April 2011, lasting nine months, and on April 15, it was announced that it would go on tour nationwide. Since then, the "Bay Revival on Tour" has been held in cities across the USA including: Youngstown, OH ; Dallas, TX ; Sayreville, NJ ; Detroit MI ; Lake Charles, LA ; Phoenix, AZ . The Orlando Sentinel reported that the "Bay Revival"

2774-556: The Johnsonian Revivals, largely expanded the pietistic emphases of Hauge via the Inner Mission Society as spearheaded by Gisle Johnson, which revolved around lay preaching and Bible study, increased spiritual literacy via the distribution of Christian literature, and the alleviation of the impoverished conditions of the quickly-industrializing Norway of the nineteenth century. The Johnsonian Revivals would go on to influence

2847-464: The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah emphasise periods of national decline and revival associated with the rule of respectively wicked or righteous kings. Josiah is notable within this biblical narrative as a figure who reinstituted temple worship of Yahweh while destroying pagan worship. Within modern church history, church historians have identified and debated the effects of various national revivals within

2920-597: The Netherlands the movement was taken forward by Willem Bilderdijk , with Isaäc da Costa , Abraham Capadose , Samuel Iperusz Wiselius , Willem de Clercq and Groen van Prinsterer as his pupils. The movement was politically influential and actively involved in improving society, and – at the end of the 19th century – brought about anti-revolutionary and Christian historical parties. At the same time in Britain figures such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Chalmers were active, although they are not considered to be part of

2993-621: The Norwegian church mission societies abroad, spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In the U.S. the Second Great Awakening (1800–30s) was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings. Major leaders included Asahel Nettleton , James Brainerd Taylor , Charles Grandison Finney , Lyman Beecher , Barton Stone , Alexander Campbell , Peter Cartwright and James B. Finley . Rev. Charles Finney (1792–1875)

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3066-529: The Pietistic preaching of Hans Nielsen Hauge and dogmatician Gisle Johnson , the latter of which started the movement known as the Johnsonian Revivals. The lasting importance of Hauge's revivals was threefold: 1. the introduction of revivalism as a prominent feature of Norwegian spiritual life, 2. the introduction of lay preaching as a common practice, and 3. institution of conventicles, or non-sanctioned congregational gatherings. The second wave of revivals, called

3139-501: The USA attended the meetings, "having been spurred on by viral Internet videos". GOD TV started airing three-hour broadcasts from the Bay Revival in November 2010, expanding it to a global audience and rapidly increasing its international following. Many people have claimed to be healed through the Bay Revival, posting their stories on the Internet and YouTube . The most publicized of these

3212-472: The church told local news reporters that it did not keep records of the healings. In 1997, the leaders of the revival—Hill, Kilpatrick, and Lindell Cooley (Brownsville's worship director)—went to several cities (Anaheim, Dallas, St. Louis, Lake Charles (Louisiana), Toledo, and Birmingham) and held like meetings. They named this ministry "Awake America". The primary part of the revival ended in 2000 when Hill moved on to pursue other works. In 2003, Hill founded

3285-475: The church, even going as far as to threaten to leave the church if it didn't accept the revival. Supporters of the revival would also cite prophecies by Dr. David Yonggi Cho , pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church , as evidence that the revival was inspired by God . According to Cho, God told him he was "going to send revival to the seaside city of Pensacola, and it will spread like a fire until all of America has been consumed by it." On Father's Day June 18, 1995,

3358-412: The close of the prayer meeting". By May, 50,000 of New York's 800,000 people were new converts. Finney wrote of this revival, "This winter of 1857–58 will be remembered as the time when a great revival prevailed. It swept across the land with such power that at the time it was estimated that not less than 50,000 conversions occurred weekly." In 1857, four young Irishmen began a weekly prayer meeting in

3431-533: The developing science of geology. However, by 1810 he had become an evangelical and would eventually lead the Disruption of 1843 that resulted in the formation of the Free Church of Scotland . The Plymouth Brethren started with John Nelson Darby at this time, a result of disillusionment with denominationalism and clerical hierarchy. The established churches too, were influenced by the evangelical revival. In 1833

3504-431: The earlier revivals had left a dearth of religious imagery that the visions supplied. They also challenged the denial of the spiritual and miraculous element of scripture by opponents of the revival, who held liberal and critical theological positions. The structure and content of the visions not only repeated those of Scripture and earlier Christian mystical tradition but also illuminated the personal and social tensions that

3577-505: The floor for hours at a time. Some participants call the experience being " slain in the Spirit ." Others simply refer to receiving the touch of God. Regardless of what they call it, these people are putting the "roll" back in "holy roller." In 1993, two years before the revival began, Brownsville's pastor , John Kilpatrick, began directing his congregation to pray for revival. Over the next two years, he talked constantly about bringing revival to

3650-692: The great Welsh revival (1904). In 1906 the modern Pentecostal movement was born in Azusa Street , in Los Angeles. The rebaibal , as it is known in Tok Pisin , had begun in the Solomon Islands and reached the Urapmin people by 1977. The Urapmin were particularly zealous in rejecting their traditional beliefs, and adopted a form of Charismatic Christianity based on Baptist Christianity . The Urapmin innovated

3723-610: The history of the US and other countries. During the 18th and 19th centuries, American society experienced a number of " Awakenings " around the years 1727, 1792, 1830, 1857 and 1882. More recent revivals in the 20th century include the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival , 1906 ( Azusa Street Revival ), 1930s ( Balokole ), 1970s ( Jesus people ), 1971 Bario Revival and 1909 Chile Revival which spread in the Americas, Africa, and Asia among Protestants and Catholics. Many Christian revivals drew inspiration from

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3796-477: The indigenous Geneva Evangelical Society . The Réveil also inspired the International Committee of the Red Cross , which was established in Geneva in 1863 by a group of young professional followers of the movement. As well as supporting existing Protestant denominations, in France and Germany the movement led to the creation of Free Evangelical Church groupings: the Union des Églises évangéliques libres and Bund Freier evangelischer Gemeinden in Deutschland . In

3869-439: The interest in the American movement that in 1858 the Presbyterian General Assembly meeting in Derry appointed two of their ministers, Dr. William Gibson and Rev. William McClure to visit North America. Upon their return the two deputies had many public opportunities to bear testimony to what they had witnessed of the remarkable outpouring of the Spirit across the Atlantic, and to fan the flames in their homeland yet further. Such

3942-423: The invitation to leave their seats and rush forward to a large area in front of the stage-like altar. Here, they "get right with God." . . . Untold thousands have hit the carpet in repentance. After the altar call, pastors and leaders would pray for anyone who desired to be prayed over some fell to the ground some shook under the power of God's presence some lay in a state resembling a coma, sometimes remaining flat on

4015-476: The meetings at the Daphne Civic Center were extended and continued to be held each weekend, attracting people from across America and other countries. The revival was moved to the Mobile Convention Center, in Mobile, Alabama , to accommodate the growing crowds and became known as "The Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival" after the original Spanish name for Mobile Bay . Historically, Mobile Bay was labelled on early Spanish maps as " Bahía del Espíritu Santo" ("Bay of

4088-476: The movement in Australia should examine the role of revivalism and the oscillations between emphases on personal holiness and social concerns. Historians have examined the revival movements in Scandinavia, with special attention to the growth of organizations, church history, missionary history, social class and religion, women in religious movements, religious geography, the lay movements as counter culture, ethnology, and social force. Some historians approach it as

4161-429: The next five years. Hundreds of those who attended services were moved to renew their faith during Hill's sermons. In time, the church opened its doors for Tuesday-through-Saturday evening revival services to accommodate the thousands of people who arrived and waited in the church parking lot before dawn for a chance to enter the packed sanctuary, some even camping overnight waiting for the doors to open . By 1997, it

4234-474: The paper's allegations by publishing a paid advertisement (thus shielding them from a response from the paper) in the News Journal entitled, "The Facts of The Brownsville Revival". Hank Hanegraaff, a well known cessationist and author of the book Counterfeit Revival , criticized the revival for "serious distortions of biblical Christianity" in the meetings, comparing the physical manifestations to pagan practices. J Lee Grady, editor for Charisma Magazine,

4307-440: The pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Pensacola During the revival, nearly 200,000 accepted Christianity, and by the Fall of 2000 more than 1,000 people who experienced the revival were enrolled at the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry. Thousands of pastors visited Brownsville and returned to their home congregations, leading to an outbreak of mini-revivals that helped the Assemblies of God recover from what some saw as

4380-434: The practices of spirit possession (known as the "spirit disko") and ritualized confessions, the latter being especially atypical for Protestantism . The Welsh revival was not an isolated religious movement but very much a part of Britain's modernization. The revival began in the fall of 1904 under the leadership of Evan Roberts (1878–1951), a 26-year-old former collier and minister-in-training. The revival lasted less than

4453-442: The revitalized interest of men and women in Christian perfection. Caughey successfully bridged the gap between the style of earlier camp meetings and the needs of more sophisticated Methodist congregations in the emerging cities. In England the Keswick Convention movement began out of the British Holiness movement , encouraging a lifestyle of holiness , unity and prayer. On 21 September 1857 businessman Jeremiah Lanphier began

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4526-448: The role of pastor at the "Church of His Presence". It was during the Church's 2010 "Open the Heavens Conference" that the revival phenomenon was claimed by those in attendance to have returned; it was reported to have taken place whilst Nathan Morris was preaching during the final night of the event, on July 23. The "outbreak of revival" at the 2010 conference was characterized by claims of people being supernaturally healed. Subsequently,

4599-504: The traditionalists who argued for ritual and doctrine and the revivalists who ignored or sometimes avidly contradicted doctrine, e.g. George Whitfield 's being denied a pulpit in Anglican Churches after denying Anglican Doctrine. Its democratic features had a major impact in shaping the Congregational , Presbyterian , Dutch Reformed , and German Reformed denominations, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations. It had little impact on Anglicans and Quakers . Unlike

4672-447: The use of the term "revival" to refer to an evangelistic meeting or series of meetings (see revival meeting ). Proponents view revivals as the restoration of the church to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of moral decline. Within Christian studies the concept of revival is derived from biblical narratives of national decline and restoration during the history of the Israelites. In particular, narrative accounts of

4745-402: The village of Connor near Ballymena . See also Ahoghill . This meeting is generally regarded as the origin of the 1859 Ulster Revival that swept through most of the towns and villages throughout Ulster and in due course brought 100,000 converts into the churches. It was also ignited by a young preacher, Henry Grattan Guinness , who drew thousands at a time to hear his preaching. So great was

4818-413: The visit of Scottish Christian Robert Haldane in 1816–17. The circle included such figures as Merle D'Aubigne , César Malan , Felix Neff , and the Monod brothers. As these men traveled, the movement spread to Lyon and Paris in France, Berlin and Eberfeld in Germany, and the Netherlands. Several missionary societies were founded to support this work, such as the British-based Continental society and

4891-416: Was Rev. James Caughey, an American sent by the Wesleyan Methodist Church to Canada from the 1840s through 1864. He brought in converts by the score, most notably in the revivals in Canada West 1851–53. His technique combined restrained emotionalism with a clear call for personal commitment, coupled with follow-up action to organize support from converts. It was a time when the Holiness Movement caught fire, with

4964-458: Was a key leader of the evangelical revival movement in America. From 1821 onward he conducted revival meetings across many north-eastern states and won many converts. For him, a revival was not a miracle but a change of mindset that was ultimately a matter of an individual's free will. His revival meetings created anxiety in a penitent's mind that their soul could only be saved by submission to the will of God, as illustrated by Finney's quotations from

5037-490: Was also held in Orlando as part of GOD TV 's launch into the city. As people claimed to be healed, the Bay Revival became the focus of media attention. ABC News featured it in a Nightline report as part of its Faith Matters series, questioning "the fine line between faith and false hope". The report includes accounts of people who say they were healed and an interview with Nathan Morris and John Kilpatrick. The Huffington Post observed that thousands of people from across

5110-463: Was common to have lengthy and rapturous periods of singing and dancing and altars packed with hundreds of writhing or dead-still bodies from a variety of ages, races and socioeconomic conditions. As the revival progressed, the testimonies of people receiving salvation were joined by testimonies of supernatural healings . In Steve Hill's words, "We're seeing miraculous healings, cancerous tumors disappear and drug addicts immediately delivered." However,

5183-419: Was critical of the division that had grown within the leadership at the last stage of the revival. He also reported that numerous former attendees now attend local Baptist churches. Christian revival Christian revivalism is increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a Christian church, congregation or society with a local, national or global effect. This should be distinguished from

5256-545: Was hand-picked by God to lead worship and she will teach you how your home can be filled with God's Glory." According to the Bay Revival Worship Volume 1 cover, "Lydia Stanley and the team have led millions around the world in passionate worship through GOD TV." Brownsville Revival The Brownsville Revival (also known as the Pensacola Outpouring ) was a widely reported Christian revival within

5329-410: Was the strength of emotion generated by the preachers' oratory that many made spontaneous confessions seeking to be relieved of their burdens of sin. Others suffered complete nervous breakdown. The most recent Great Awakening (1904 onwards) had its roots in the holiness movement which had developed in the late 19th century. The Pentecostal revival movement began, out of a passion for more power and

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