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08-03-2014, 07:52 PM
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End time Revival
"We are the brink of the greatest revival the world has ever seen! God is going to pour out His Spirit like never before in the last days! God is bringing restoration and revival. Our churches are about to explode with growth, we need to start the buildings to house them now! Miracles, signs and wonders are about to explode and the five fold ministry is going to be restored."
And such is the rhetoric in certain circles of Pentecost. What are your thoughts on the prophesied "end time revival"?
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08-03-2014, 07:59 PM
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Re: End time Revival
Well, they read dispensationalism in every news headline. Churches always see more growth when it looks like the world is going to end.
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08-03-2014, 08:17 PM
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Re: End time Revival
Regardless of how one feels about "end time revival" the truth is that we do need to do a better job of fulfilling the great commission.
My pastor mentioned a sobering statistic this morning. In our town of a little over 100,000 people statistics show that on any given Sunday almost 70% of people are not in a church of any kind including non christian services such as Muslim, Hindu, etc.
So even running 1100-1200 people each Sunday is just a drop in the bucket when you look at the 70,000 people we need to reach who are not going to church.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-03-2014, 08:19 PM
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Re: End time Revival
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Originally Posted by CC1
Regardless of how one feels about "end time revival" the truth is that we do need to do a better job of fulfilling the great commission.
My pastor mentioned a sobering statistic this morning. In our town of a little over 100,000 people statistics show that on any given Sunday almost 70% of people are not in a church of any kind including non christian services such as Muslim, Hindu, etc.
So even running 1100-1200 people each Sunday is just a drop in the bucket when you look at the 70,000 people we need to reach who are not going to church.
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Agreed
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08-03-2014, 08:40 PM
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Re: End time Revival
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Originally Posted by houston
Well, they read dispensationalism in every news headline. Churches always see more growth when it looks like the world is going to end.
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I get what your saying
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08-03-2014, 08:44 PM
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Re: End time Revival
Anyone else? Is God going to pour out His Spirit in the days approaching His second advent in a greater way that he has previously? Is the five fold ministry and "Apostolic Authority" going to be restored?
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08-03-2014, 08:53 PM
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Re: End time Revival
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
Anyone else? Is God going to pour out His Spirit in the days approaching His second advent in a greater way that he has previously? Is the five fold ministry and "Apostolic Authority" going to be restored?
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I wasn't aware that the five fold ministry was in need of being restored! I have never heard that opinion expressed before. Is that widely held or just the opinion of one preacher you heard?
Of course the rest of what you posted about, end time revival, I heard all of my life in the UPC.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-03-2014, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
"We are the brink of the greatest revival the world has ever seen! God is going to pour out His Spirit like never before in the last days! God is bringing restoration and revival. Our churches are about to explode with growth, we need to start the buildings to house them now! Miracles, signs and wonders are about to explode and the five fold ministry is going to be restored."
And such is the rhetoric in certain circles of Pentecost. What are your thoughts on the prophesied "end time revival"?
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God has never needed buildings to do his work. We don't need to worry about housing anything.
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"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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08-03-2014, 11:46 PM
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Re: End time Revival
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
Anyone else? Is God going to pour out His Spirit in the days approaching His second advent in a greater way that he has previously? Is the five fold ministry and "Apostolic Authority" going to be restored?
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God has been pouring out His Spirit since Acts 2
Revival is the product of a hungry people who are willing to sacrifice, pray, fast, get into the word and read the lost
Revival will never happen just because we believe it to be so. God may promise revival but the promise is contingent on our faith
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08-04-2014, 06:22 AM
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Re: End time Revival
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
"We are the brink of the greatest revival the world has ever seen! God is going to pour out His Spirit like never before in the last days! God is bringing restoration and revival. Our churches are about to explode with growth, we need to start the buildings to house them now! Miracles, signs and wonders are about to explode and the five fold ministry is going to be restored."
And such is the rhetoric in certain circles of Pentecost. What are your thoughts on the prophesied "end time revival"?
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End time revival will take place along side end time apostasy. I'm Post-Trib. I believe the greatest revival will come in the midst of great tribulation.
And the notion that we "need" to begin building bigger buildings is carnal logic. An inflow of devoted believers will put in motion efforts to meet the body's needs.
Last edited by Aquila; 08-04-2014 at 06:28 AM.
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