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We began the story of the Student Volunteer Movement in 1886. Eighty years earlier God was preparing the way for the greatest student missionary movement in the history of the church.
In 1806 Five students gathered to pray for revival on their campus and in their generation. Samuel Mills, a [...]
The Student Volunteer Movement was the greatest student missionary movement in the history of the church. What accounts for the success of its early years?
1. A passionate and practical faith
The SVM was served by a lean and effective low cost organization with a minimum of paid staff. The real driving force was the faith and [...]
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference of Edinburgh 1910. It marked a highpoint of Protestant missions and the beginning of the Ecumenical movement that birthed the World Council of Churches.
Next year there will be a spate of articles on the centenary, so I’m getting in early with a serious of [...]
Allan Anderson has a new book out: Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism.
My copy is still on the way but I have read a summary article. Here are some highlights . . .
According to Anderson, Pentecostalism is probably the fastest expanding religious movement ever. Here are five of the main features of Pentecostalism [...]
This week I’m in Sydney speaking at the national conference of the Church Army Australia on movements.
I did some research on the Church Army and their founder Wilson Carlile. An inspiring tale.
Carlile left school at fourteen to make his fortune which he did by the time he was twenty six. Then came the depression of [...]
The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone takes radically something that was already there.
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
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Craig Borlase is William Seymour’s latest biographer.
Recently Craig attended the Centenary of the Azusa Street Revival. The Azusa Street Revival launched Pentecostalism as a world wide movement. Seymour was the key figure in that revival.
Here are his reflections on Seymour as a founder and on how far modern Pentecostalism has come from it’s humble beginnings.
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Summa summarum: Drink beer and let the Word do the work.
“Summa summarum,” said Luther, “I will preach, speak, write, but I will force no one; for faith must be voluntary. Take me as an example. I stood up against the Pope, indulgences, and all papists, but without violence or uproar. I only urged, preached, and [...]
Heroism is the lost chord, the missing note of present day Christianity!
Every true soldier is a hero! A Soldier without heroism is a Chocolate Soldier! Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a Chocolate Soldier? In peace true soldiers are captive lions, fretting in their cages. War gives [...]
Listen in on Francis Xavier’s relationship with Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. What was it about him that inspired gifted, a privileged nobleman like Xavier to give up everything and lay down his life in service?
My true Father,
I received a letter of your holy charity at Malacca when I returned from Japan. God [...]
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