Using eyewitness accounts, Geoff Waugh takes you inside the hearts and minds of people in revivals spanning the last three centuries. Beginning with the Moravians in 1727, this book gives first person reports of revivals in Europe, America, Canada, Africa, India, Korea, Chile and more, including recent revivals. Dr C Peter Wagner, wrote in the foreword: Geoff Waugh and I agree that our generation is likely to be an eye witness to the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that history has ever known. Many others join us in this expectation, some of them sensing that it will come in the next few years.
Here in America, it seems to me that I have heard more reports of revival-like activity in the past three years than in the previous thirty. This has caused revival to be a more frequent topic of Christian conversation than I have ever seen. There is an extraordinary hunger for learning more about how the hand of God works in revival.
That is a major reason why Flashpoints of Revival is such a timely book. Christian libraries are well stocked with detailed accounts of certain revivals as well as scholarly analytical histories of revival. But I know of no other book like this one that provides rapid-fire, easy-to-read, factual literary snapshots of virtually every well-known revival since Pentecost.
As I read this book, I was thrilled to see how God has been so mightily at work in so many different times and places. I felt like I had grasped the overall picture of revival for the first time, and I was moved to pray that God, indeed, would allow me not to be just an observer, but rather a literal participant in the worldwide outpouring that will soon come. As you read the book, I am sure you will be saying the same thing.
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Review
Geoff Waugh's comprehensive and up-to-date book provides a global perspective of the unexpected and transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Read, be inspired and encouraged. Rev Dr John Olley --Endorsement of Flashpoints of Revival (2nd ed.) 2009
The first time I read this book, I couldn't put it down. Not only were the stories researched with clear and concise data, but they provide an account of revivals that blew my mind away. An inspirational read. --Romulo Nayacalevu, Fiji
This work is of great significance. It is a comprehensive overview of the major revivals during the last three centuries. Churches and Christians around the world will benefit greatly from this timely contribution. --Rev Prof Dr James Haire
It will be a compendium for historians and others interested in the subject for a long time to come. I doubt if there is a resource quite like it for logical progression and comprehensive treatment. ** --Rev Tony Cupit
It is very informative and up to date concerning revivals both past and present. I am confident that this book will be well received by many scholars and historians. --Rev Dr Naomi Dowdy
From the Author
This book surveys revivals, especially in the last 300 years, with many brief, first person reports. I taught on renewal and revival in Bible Colleges in the South Pacific and in colleges in Brisbane, Australia.
Bounding across the vivid green ridges and gorges of Papua New Guinea's highlands, I found a gem in Meg, my wonderful wife, now in heaven. We were both Australian missionaries and brought our first child home to our bamboo and grass house in the majestic highlands. We became grateful grandparents, proud of our extended family of three children and their children. Together we have explored dynamic renewal and transforming revival.
My work with various church traditions gave me great scope for renewal ministry. Part of that ministry was leading the interdenominational Renewal Fellowship in Brisbane. I deeply appreciate the support and encouragement of that group, especially traveling as teams to various churches and to other countries. I'll always remember the June monsoon rains in Ghana that ceased on the first night of our open-air, combined-churches crusade there and began again the day after our last meeting. I loved teaching inaugural courses on the History of Revivals and on Signs and Wonders at the warmly hospitable Asian Theological Seminary in Manila in the Philippines in their hot summer schools. Our mission teams trekked to dedicated little churches in the cities and villages of Nepal, India and Sri Lanka where a bewildering array of faith-filled Bible Schools inspired us all. They ranged from small local church ones in Nepal and Sri Lanka to the 600-student campus of the indigenous Indian Inland Mission near New Delhi in India.
In the nineties I began editing the interdenominational Renewal Journal and we published 20 issues in a decade. They are now available on *the web along with mission and publication news.
I taught at Trinity Theological College and the School of Ministries at Christian Heritage College in Brisbane. The CHC college offers degrees in ministry, education, social sciences, business and arts. Initially they invited me to write the submission for the government accredited Bachelor of Ministry degree, and then I continued teaching there beyond being retired, or re-fired. Their School of Ministries is also the Bible School for Christian Outreach Centre, an Australian revival movement with over 200 churches in Australia and more than 1400 in other nations.
Christians are one in Christ. That is a theological fact and eternal reality. As we rediscover that reality through repentance, reconciliation, unity and love, we also discover revival transformation. God honors his promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.*
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Using eyewitness accounts, Geoff Waugh takes you inside the hearts and minds of people in revivals spanning the last three centuries. Beginning with the Moravians in 1727, this book gives first person reports of revivals in Europe, America, Canada, Africa, India, Korea, Chile and more, including recent revivals.
Dr C Peter Wagner, wrote in the foreword:
Geoff Waugh and I agree that our generation is likely to be an eye witness to the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that history has ever known. Many others join us in this expectation, some of them sensing that it will come in the next few years.
Here in America, it seems to me that I have heard more reports of revival-like activity in the past three years than in the previous thirty. This has caused revival to be a more frequent topic of Christian conversation than I have ever seen. There is an extraordinary hunger for learning more about how the hand of God works in revival.
That is a major reason why Flashpoints of Revival is such a timely book. Christian libraries are well stocked with detailed accounts of certain revivals as well as scholarly analytical histories of revival. But I know of no other book like this one that provides rapid-fire, easy-to-read, factual literary snapshots of virtually every well-known revival since Pentecost.
As I read this book, I was thrilled to see how God has been so mightily at work in so many different times and places. I felt like I had grasped the overall picture of revival for the first time, and I was moved to pray that God, indeed, would allow me not to be just an observer, but rather a literal participant in the worldwide outpouring that will soon come. As you read the book, I am sure you will be saying the same thing.
**
Review
Geoff Waugh's comprehensive and up-to-date book provides a global perspective of the unexpected and transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Read, be inspired and encouraged.
Rev Dr John Olley
--Endorsement of Flashpoints of Revival (2nd ed.) 2009
The first time I read this book, I couldn't put it down. Not only were the stories researched with clear and concise data, but they provide an account of revivals that blew my mind away. An inspirational read.
--Romulo Nayacalevu, Fiji
This work is of great significance. It is a comprehensive overview of the major revivals during the last three centuries. Churches and Christians around the world will benefit greatly from this timely contribution. --Rev Prof Dr James Haire
It will be a compendium for historians and others interested in the subject for a long time to come. I doubt if there is a resource quite like it for logical progression and comprehensive treatment.
** --Rev Tony Cupit
It is very informative and up to date concerning revivals both past and present. I am confident that this book will be well received by many scholars and historians. --Rev Dr Naomi Dowdy
From the Author
This book surveys revivals, especially in the last 300 years, with many brief, first person reports. I taught on renewal and revival in Bible Colleges in the South Pacific and in colleges in Brisbane, Australia.
Bounding across the vivid green ridges and gorges of Papua New Guinea's highlands, I found a gem in Meg, my wonderful wife, now in heaven. We were both Australian missionaries and brought our first child home to our bamboo and grass house in the majestic highlands. We became grateful grandparents, proud of our extended family of three children and their children. Together we have explored dynamic renewal and transforming revival.
My work with various church traditions gave me great scope for renewal ministry. Part of that ministry was leading the interdenominational Renewal Fellowship in Brisbane. I deeply appreciate the support and encouragement of that group, especially traveling as teams to various churches and to other countries. I'll always remember the June monsoon rains in Ghana that ceased on the first night of our open-air, combined-churches crusade there and began again the day after our last meeting. I loved teaching inaugural courses on the History of Revivals and on Signs and Wonders at the warmly hospitable Asian Theological Seminary in Manila in the Philippines in their hot summer schools. Our mission teams trekked to dedicated little churches in the cities and villages of Nepal, India and Sri Lanka where a bewildering array of faith-filled Bible Schools inspired us all. They ranged from small local church ones in Nepal and Sri Lanka to the 600-student campus of the indigenous Indian Inland Mission near New Delhi in India.
In the nineties I began editing the interdenominational Renewal Journal and we published 20 issues in a decade. They are now available on *the web along with mission and publication news.
I taught at Trinity Theological College and the School of Ministries at Christian Heritage College in Brisbane. The CHC college offers degrees in ministry, education, social sciences, business and arts. Initially they invited me to write the submission for the government accredited Bachelor of Ministry degree, and then I continued teaching there beyond being retired, or re-fired. Their School of Ministries is also the Bible School for Christian Outreach Centre, an Australian revival movement with over 200 churches in Australia and more than 1400 in other nations.
Christians are one in Christ. That is a theological fact and eternal reality. As we rediscover that reality through repentance, reconciliation, unity and love, we also discover revival transformation. God honors his promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.*