Ministerial Enrichment - Session #1

WHERE WE CAME FROM

1850-1900

WHAT IS IT?????

REVIVAL

REFORMATION

RESTORATION

RENAISSANCE

REVITALIZATION

EACH CARRIES AN UNDERSTANDING OF A RETURN TO SOMETHING WHICH WAS MISALIGNED, MISDIRECTED, OR LOST.

HOW DOES REVIVAL COME?

NAMES WELL KNOWN

JONATHAN EDWARDS 1703-1758

THE SURPRISING ACTS OF GOD (BOOK)

CHARLES FINNEY 1792-1875

LECTURES ON REVIVAL

THE STARTING OF THE ALTAR CALL

THE ANXIOUS BENCH

HENRY BLACKABY

FRESH ENCOUNTER’S PATERN FOR REVIVAL (BOOK)

A UNIQUE TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1850-1900

A country at war with itself

Westward Expansion

15 Presidents in 50 years - one dying suddenly, three assassinated, one impeached

Increase in population, transportation, technology

Darwin’s Origin of the Species

Rise of Protestant Liberalism/Social Gospel

THREE STREAMS THAT CONVERGED INTO A RIVER . . .

Pre-millenialism

Restorationism

Holiness (Deeper Life) Movement

JESUS IS COMING SOON!!!!

We must get ready!

We must get others ready!

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WE MUST GET READY . . .

TWO VIEWS OF SANCTIFICATION . . .

WE NEED A RESTORATION OF THE POWER THEY HAD AT PENTECOST . . .

Resurgence of interest in “the baptism in the Holy Spirit”

“The Pentecostal Power” by Methodist song leader, Charles Barbiel

WE MUST GET OTHERS READY . . .

1865 China Inland Mission (J. Hudson Taylor)

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PREPARATION FOR PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL. . .

Understanding that this world is not our home nor our hope

Conviction of the imminent return of christ and the “Blessed Hope”

Emphases on the purity of the believer in consecration to God

Longing for the restoration of the New Testament Church through the power of the Holy Spirit.