 Good morning. Before we begin, will someone open us in prayer, please? They can say you're unmuted, but I can't hear anything. Okay, okay, sure. Okay, I need you to just open us in prayer. Father, we thank you for this time. Thank you, Lord, that you know our God, who seeks to reveal yourself to us. We pray that as we gather today, Lord, that you would be the one teaching us, you would be the one empowering me to speak and that you would be the one empowering us to receive, Lord, what you have for us today. We pray your presence, your power in this time together. In Jesus' name, we pray. I posted our assignments, two final assignments on Google Classroom. Have you all had a chance to look at that? Not yet. Okay, I'll just quickly go over it because one of your assignments is due this Saturday. So we have a personal reflection paper. You're all able to hear me, okay? Yes. Okay, so I posted two assignments on Google Classroom. There's a personal reflection paper, which is due this Saturday. I can see some people have handed it in. That's great. So this paper, I just asked you to look at your presentation on the revivalist. And I want to know what was your personal takeaway from that presentation? What did you learn as you studied that revivalist's life and how they were used by God? What was your personal learning and what are some things you can apply to your own life? I've asked a few questions just to help you know what you can include in your paper. So what impacted you from their life? What did the Holy Spirit highlight to you something that you felt is a personal takeaway for you? Why did it impact you? What is some specific new revelation you received? How does it apply to your life at present? And what steps are you going to take to apply what you've learned? So what are you going to do like some practical things that you're going to do based on what you've learned through that time of study? And the things I'm looking at is I want whatever you're writing to be original. So I don't want something just copied from an online source and pasted here. I am looking for, so this is a written paper. So grammar and your writing should be, you know, just looked at. So you can write whatever you've written. You can ask someone to look at it and correct any errors you've made, get feedback and make corrections. So the grammar is also important and correct writing. Submission on time, answering the question asked. So that you've asked answered it thoroughly. And then I've given you a word limit of 250 to 300 words. So it's a short paper. But it's an important paper because it's not meant to be purely an academic thing, whatever we're doing here, but we want to see it impacting us personally. And so that's why this paper is important. Now, if you have not done a presentation on a revivalist, then yeah. So you can pick a revivalist and do a study and you can share about that. But since you've not done a presentation, you won't be getting any marks for that one assignment. So but for this one, you can just pick any revivalist and do some study and then share your learning based on your study. So share in your paper, you can mention which revivalist you've looked at. And then your final paper. This is not a very complicated paper. So I've asked you to look at chapter eight textbook, which is the pursuit of revival, the cry for the visitation and move of God. And I've asked you to summarize what that chapter talks about. So you can just take the main points and provide a summary. Just mention all the main points that are there in the chapter and compare those points to another revival that is mentioned in chapter five. So chapter five is what they're starting with today and chapter five looks a little more in detail at just a few revivals. So you can look at what chapter eight is talking about chapter eight talks about what all happens in a revival. Compare that with one of these revival stories from chapter five. Or if you want to still stick to the revivalist that you presented, you can use that and compare it with what chapter eight talks about. So here again, check your grammar, check your spellings, all of those things and then submission on time and answering the question thoroughly and accurately. So those are two assignments and then we have one quiz which I will post probably the last two weeks of the semester. So that quiz, I'll give you all about two weeks to submit. This final paper is due on 11th November. So I think it's about you have, yeah, close to three weeks to work on the final paper. Does that sound okay? Any questions? Okay. Okay, sure. Let's go. Thank you. We will go into chapter five. Yes, the reflection paper is due on Saturday, this Saturday. That's the 28th of October. It's due, I think, sometime midday. So if you can submit it by the morning just to make sure you turned it in on time. That'll be good. Thank you. I'll just share my screen. October 28th, so that's this Saturday. The reflection papers due this Saturday. Okay, so we'll go into chapter five. We're just going to be looking in a little more detail at some of these, some of the revivals that we already covered when we were going through that whole timeline of church history. So the first revival we look at is the Moravian revival, which we actually, we did go into some detail when we were looking at it before, but we'll go over it and see some of the key points from that revival. So there was persecution in a place called Moravia, where a lot of Christians were present. And so to escape this persecution, they moved to Germany and they were taken in by Count Zindof. So he was the son of devout pietists who are people who kind of went against the mainstream church of that day in Germany. Because the pietists emphasized a personal faith and a personal walk with God, whereas mainstream church was much more just organized religion. So Zindof was the son of a couple who were devout pietists. And he took in this group of refugees and gave them a place to stay when they moved from Moravia to Germany. And this is how the Hearnhardt community was established. Now the Hearnhardt community was made up of 300 refugees and they had come from different places. So there was a lot of infighting within the group because they all were different culturally and all of that. So in May 1727, Count Zindof had a meeting and he talked to them about having Christian unity and shared about Christianity. There being no Christianity without community. And during this time they came as a community to repentance, to repent of all the fighting that had been happening between them. And then to be restored to one another in unity. After this, in August 1727, they were meeting with another church for a time of prayer. And they were with the Bertelsdorf parish church and they met with them and during this time of prayer, they were praying for greater unity. They were praying for themselves as a church, for their witness as a church. And during that time the Holy Spirit came in power and they just felt the presence of God in their midst in a powerful way. Count Zindof talked about it as if he said it was like they were in heaven at that time. So after this experience of the Holy Spirit's presence in their midst, this was the same group of people we talked about. They started a rotational time of prayer. So they were praying 24 hours a day in groups of two to three. There were 24 men, 24 women and so they would gather in groups of two or three. And each group would spend an hour in prayer each day. And they started this and continued for over 100 years. So this prayer really impacted the church powerfully. From here there were missionaries that were birthed and sent out. And like we see here, all the number of missionaries that were sent out was more than all the Protestant churches had sent out for the last 200 years. So this small group of people sent out more missionaries than all the Protestant churches in 200 years. This is a map of all the places to which they went, their missionaries were sent. So they had 70 missionaries that were sent from a group of less than 600 people. And it led to the beginning of the Protestant world mission movement. And through this Moravian church, there were many other movements that were impacted. So William Carey who came to India was impacted by the Moravian church. George Whitefield who was part of the first great awakening. John Wesley who was found of the Methodist church. All of them were influenced by the Moravian revival. And a lot of the prayer movements that started in the 18th century in America and in England were influenced by this church, by this prayer movement in the Moravian church. So some things for us to take away from this revival. All in all, there were about 226 missionaries that they sent in just 35 years. They had sent so many missionaries. And some things that we can learn from this revival is the importance of unity. So we see before the Holy Spirit came to them in that meeting, they had already dealt with division in the church. And so they come to a place of unity. They were also meeting with another church during this time of prayer. And so unity is a very important base before we see revival beginning in a community. The second is responding to the spirit. So when the Holy Spirit came and moved in their midst, they responded by starting this ongoing prayer movement. They didn't just receive that presence and enjoy it and then continue their meetings as usual. They chose to do something about it and that sparked further moves of the Holy Spirit and enabled them to take what God was doing there to other places, to other countries. And then prayer as a very important foundation for the work that was done. So it was prayer that fueled the revival and the world missions. That prayer didn't happen just at that point but continued for 100 years and continued to raise men and women who would go out to other parts of the world. I'm just going to pause this. I have something bought in my throat. Excuse me. Okay, so from there we are going to the next revival, which is the second great awakening of 1800. Now this happened in North America and at this point there was a big drop in attendance in church in all of the different denominations that were present at the time. And even in college campuses, even though those college campuses, Christian campuses, there were no believers on campus. So this is an example. Harvard didn't have any believers among their students. Princeton had only two believers in the entire student body. So that was the state of Christianity. The country had been so... Christianity was the foundation of the people who had gone to the United States. But they'd slowly forgotten their faith and they had just kind of had become something that was not of great consequence. And at that time was also a growth in atheism. There was a growth in importance given to thinking versus faith. So everything should be proved by logic or by science. And so more and more people were starting to leave the church and were coming to this place of disbelief in God completely. So that was the state of the church. And at this time, a Baptist pastor named Isaac Bacchus began to recognize that there was a need for revival. And he himself started to pray for revival and to send out to other pastors from other denominations just an invitation to pray for the churches in America. And so they started to meet together and they set aside the first Monday of every month they would meet together and they would pray. Soon after that Christians across the country started to form these prayer groups and they would meet together and pray. One day a month they would pray together and then every Saturday morning as well they would meet for prayer for half an hour. And so it was during this time of prayer that they started to experience revival. It started in Kentucky in a county called Logan County and then spread to various other parts of the US as well. So this is where one of the revival spots the Red River Meeting House where they started to experience God moving in power. There was a Presbyterian pastor and he was pastoring three small congregations in Logan County and he started to lead his congregation in prayers for revival. Every Saturday and Sunday morning they would pray and then on the third Saturday of every month they would fast and pray for God to move. The congregations were very small. The largest congregation had just about 25 people. So it was small gatherings but they were continuing to meet and seek God and asking God to move in their midst. So for four years they continued doing this and there was no change that happened. But in June 1800 as you were having a four day meeting at this Red River Church, the Holy Spirit began to move in their midst. Many of them began to cry. Many of them broke down, collapsed, weeping and many of them just felt deep conviction of their sin. Assurance that God had forgiven them and so just a lot of people coming to salvation as Holy Spirit was moving in their midst. At the same time in one of the other congregations that the pastor was leading, they started to experience God moving in their midst as well. And people started to come from all over the place like we see in so many of these survivors. People start coming from around that location to experience what God is doing in their midst. And there were powerful manifestations we'll read about different ways in which they saw the Holy Spirit moving in their midst. And there were such large groups of people attending that they had to start setting up camps for people to move. So if we see in this picture here on the left there are tents where the people were staying so that they could stay there for days and they could just come out on the camp grounds and listen to the preachers speak. So there were large, large groups and meeting for several days in the outdoors because they were just wanting to see what God was doing. At the same time in another part of the same state, Kentucky, is where God started to move in Cain Bridge, Kentucky. So there was a pastor Barton Stone and he was the pastor of Concord and Cain Bridge Presbyterian churches in Kentucky. He attended some of the revival meetings in this Red River church and then he took that back to his congregations and started meetings in Cain Bridge in August 1801. So people soon started gathering and there were 25,000 people who had gathered to see what God was doing at these camp meetings that he conducted. There were signs, wonders, manifestations. So people would be slain in the spirit. There would be loud laughter, people running and shouting, some even barking like dogs, holding onto trees, repenting of their sins. So it was things that were very unexpected, not things that the pastors were expecting, not ways in which they were expecting the Holy Spirit to move. But even through that they were able to see that people were coming to repentance, people were being impacted, their lives were being changed and so they knew that it was a move of the Holy Spirit. So just in three years in that time there were 10,000 people added to the Baptist church, 40,000 people added to the Methodist church in just three years and even other denominations grew in large numbers during this time. So in this second picture here on the left you see many groups because there were so many people, 25,000 people gathered and there were actually pastors from many different denominations who had come together in these meetings. So what we did was they formed little groups of preachers and so the crowds would gather in different groups and in those different groups there would be a different preacher preaching. So there were many sermons happening simultaneously on the grounds because there was no way to preach to such a large crowd at one time. And so we can see all of the different groups and preachers there with those groups. Also on college campuses many students started to come to Christ so like we were talking about atheism was growing and this focus on using your mind. And so there was less people willing to come to faith. So Jonathan Edwards grandson was actually a president at Yale University and he had been preaching for seven years in the college campus on Christian faith. But until that time it had had no effect on the students. In 1801 he preached on infidelity and during that time about half of the body came to Christ, half that student body came to Christ. And similarly in other college campuses as well revival started to spread and so there was a great increase in believers on campus which was also a powerful move of God. So we see here a few things again we see prayer as an important part of the revival. We see that it was prayer that led to the revival right. So people gathering to pray as a church gathering to pray fasting and praying and asking for the Lord to move. And it was a consistent prayer so taking even up to four years of the meeting and praying and asking God. There were unusual manifestations so that was there was controversy about is this really God moving but because they could see life's changed and repentance they knew that it really was of God. And then a transformation of communities so Logan County there were many criminals but there was a transformation in that community and transformation on college campuses. That was another effect of the revival. Okay, so from there we move into the layman's prayer revival. So the layman's prayer revival also we looked at before as it started in New York in 1857. It is one of the biggest and most widespread revival in American history and came at a time when there was also economic challenges that were happening in in North America. So businesses were collapsing people in New York alone there were about 30,000 people who are unemployed banking system in different parts of the US had collapsed. And so that had affected a lot of people. At the same time there were preachers that God was raising up Charles Finney, Walter and Phoebe Palmer who started to preach and there was a deep hunger within people's hearts to see revival. At this time in 1840, there's a church named Park Street Church in Boston. That's where they started to pray for revival. And many churches and individuals across New York and Boston started to pray. One specific individual is Jeremiah Lanphere, and he had just been sent to New York as a city missionary. And he came up with this plan to start or start prayer meetings at noon. So noon was when people would take a break from their work and they have their lunch and they dressed. And so he thought during that time he would start a prayer meeting and maybe people would attend it and so he distributed some pamphlets and held the first meeting at a Dutch reform church and only six people attended that first meeting. But the second week there were 20 people, the third week there were 40 people and by the fourth week there were 100 people attending those meetings. So there were up to 3,000 people coming for those prayers and then it continued to grow further and further 10,000 people attending meetings out of 800,000 people in the city, 10,000 people who were attending those daily meetings for prayer. And then because those meetings were happening, it got published in the newspaper and that spread it to across America. So just from New York with people meeting, so many people meeting in prayer, it started to spread to other parts of the US as they heard about it through the newspaper. So it's estimated that in that time just because of these gatherings of prayer, one million people were converted and another one million church members were revived in just two years. And by 1858, there were 50,000 conversions per week of people coming to Christ without any preaching or any pastors reading anything. It was just these prayer meetings with lay people. It was not being led by any pastor, it was just regular people who were part of the church who were gathering and meeting and praying and through that so many people being converted. So some reflection on this, so this is yeah, Jeremiah Lanfeer who started those meetings and this is just what the prayer meetings would look like. So some things we can take away from this is again prayer that went on for many years before revival and that that move of God's spirit happened. There was a small spark that lit the fire and that spark was just the idea of starting on Monday prayer. So just a simple idea that God used powerfully to make such a huge impact across the nation. It was just lay people who God used. There was no pastor, no preacher, no important or well-known person that did this. But it was just these common people because of their faithfulness to meet every day for prayer to sacrifice that time of eating and rest to actually meet for prayer. God used that powerfully. Newspapers, so newspapers being used as a way to share the news with others and then other people across the United States started doing these prayer meetings where they were. So how God used media in this revival and then global impact. So we see that what God started here in New York, spread to North America and then spread to the United States and then from the United States around the world where a season of revival broke out in other parts of the world. From this, from this revival. We'll move into the Welsh Revival. I don't have that on the presentation. So I'll just stop sharing screen. So the Welsh Revival happened in 1904 and Evan Roberts was a key person in the Welsh Revival. So Wales was not again in a very bad spiritual state at this time and Christianity was not having a great influence on the community. There were many churches that were empty. People were not attending churches, were not attending church at all. But around 1897 is when prayer within Wales started to increase and from 1902 prayer intensified within the church and there were more prayer meetings happening and in 1904 is when the revival broke out. So how is it that all of this started that the prayer that there was this desire to pray and people started to see revival? Sorry.