 Good morning everyone. Hello, check. Okay, good morning. We just begin with the word of prayer. Anyone willing to open us in prayer? Father God, we thank you for this time, for this class and when we came together, you lead us, guide us through your Holy Spirit, Father. When Ma'am will be teaching, you guide her by your Holy Spirit. We submit ourselves into your hand, Father. We submit this class into your hand. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you. So we'll go into today's content. Sean is supposed to present, but he hasn't logged in online. So we'll just see if he comes, he can do it or we'll... Just let me know if he comes in because I'll be sharing screen. I may not know that he's joined the class. Okay, Shivkumar, who are you presenting on? John Hyde, Ma'am. John Hyde, is it? Yes, Ma'am. Okay, let me just check. I think I had changed your date to tomorrow. Okay, Ma'am. Is tomorrow okay with you? Fine, Ma'am, not a problem. Okay. Let me just make sure that's right because I think I only had shown for today's presentation. Yeah, I think your name... I changed the date to tomorrow. So tomorrow we'll have Rin... Nikhil... Anthony... Is Anthony here? Okay, Anthony will present tomorrow as well. And Ravali is also tomorrow. So we have five presentations. So pretty much I think... Maybe we'll just start with the presentations tomorrow. Chira, yours is on October 3rd. So next week, Tuesday. Monday we won't have class. Monday is holiday. So on Tuesday next week. Your date, is it? Yes, yeah. So the Prince Nina Santosh and Chira are on October 3rd. Okay. So today it's just Sean if he joins us. Okay, so we won't do an overview of last week's content. We'll just go into this week's content. I don't think we covered this... I don't think we covered the Scottish revival. So we'll start from there. Everyone's able to see my screen, right? We'll just go from there. So 1830, we've reached all the way from the first century to the 19th century now. So we're looking at a revival that started in Scotland. So this is post the second great awakening that happened in North America and spread from North America to various parts of the world. In 1830, so the second great awakening ended in about 1814 and about 16 years after that is when the Scottish revival broke out. So in 1822 there was a Presbyterian minister named Edward Irving and he was leading the Church of Scotland. So he started to read the Book of Acts and as he was reading the Book of Acts he was challenged by the accounts that he was reading there of the Holy Spirit moving, everything that we covered in Acts, right? Of how the Holy Spirit was moving in the early church. So he looked at that and he recognized that that was something that was seen in the church and should never have stopped in the church because there is nothing in scripture that teaches that the gifts were removed from the church. So he started to talk to his congregation about seeing that as the normal outworking of the church. This is the way we should be experiencing the Holy Spirit's move amongst us. And as he did that they started to see manifestations of the gifts of the Spirit amongst them. So they started seeing towns, prophecy, healings happen within their church gatherings and membership grew multiplied so just from 50 members to 1,000 members through his preaching. So this is even before he started preaching from Acts that membership grew and then he started preaching and he was basically a gifted preacher but because of his encouragement of spiritual gifts they started seeing that also being displayed in the church. So there's an account of some women in the church. There was a woman named Mary Campbell and she started to speak in tongues in March 1830. That's one of the few first accounts of them seeing spiritual gifts. The next month there was another woman named Margaret who prophesied and said that there was going to be a baptism of the Spirit that day over the church. They both knew each other and both of them were actually sick but Margaret, the second lady who prophesied she told her brother about the Holy Spirit and prayed for him and he started to speak in tongues and then he went and prayed for her to be healed and when he prayed she was healed immediately. So he wrote a letter about her healing to the first lady who spoke in tongues Mary and just by reading that letter as she was reading the letter she was healed. So that's how the Holy Spirit started to move among them and so it was something that couldn't be disputed by people as something that they were just making up because there was evidence of healing there was evidence of the gifts among them. But Edward Irving started to preach about Christ's humanity so he was emphasizing that he was not saying that Christ was not divine he was saying Christ was divine but he was fully human when he was on earth and everything he did was by the power of the Holy Spirit so he started to teach this and the church basically felt that what he was teaching was wrong because he was talking so much about Christ's humanity so he also said that Christ could have sinned but because of the Holy Spirit in him he didn't sin so that was viewed as wrong teaching to say that God could sin and so they basically called him a heretic and he was thrown out of the church he was not allowed to continue his work so he went outside and started he continued to work outside of the church of Scotland and many people from the church continued to follow his leadership but there was a lot of problem within the church leadership because he believed in the apostles the prophets so all of those roles, the teachers pastors within the church and he believed that the prophets had a position above the pastors so he himself was a pastor so he started to follow the leading of those who had been designated as prophets within the church he lost his own position of leadership and then because there was so much division and fighting the church, wrong leadership from the prophets all of those things, the church finally kind of fell apart and the work didn't continue but he had a huge impact on kind of seeing spiritual gifts being revealed in the church four years later we moved to Germany and there was an organization called the Basel Mission so Basel is a place in Germany has anyone heard of the Basel Mission? no? Basel Mission from Germany? no, okay so the Basel Mission actually had a huge impact on India so it was founded in 1815 and first was starting to train British and Dutch missionaries that were part of mission societies but after some time started to raise up missionaries and send them out and established centers around the world but they did a lot of like apart from missions work of taking the gospel so apart from evangelism they did a lot of local work so they created printing presses they did work where they were weaving things they created tiles so they had factories that made tiles for houses and they did also medical missionary work so actually the Basel Mission came to South India to the coastal part of South India I don't know if I have that, no I don't have it on the map but they are in what is called the Malabar coast so you know, Mangalore, Kerala all of those parts so I am kind of a product of the Basel Mission because we are from Mangalore so we still are part of technically part of the Basel Mission like Christian group from Mangalore so it was a huge basically decent missionaries all around the world in India, China, Cameroon so different parts of Africa, Nigeria, Borneo Latin America, Sudan so lots of different places all around the world so missionaries that were from Germany but their huge impact was not only on missions because they had these organizations they actually supported a lot of building employment supporting the work that they were doing but on the other hand they also got distracted from their missions because they had all these businesses so a lot of it kind of became more about money making and profit in business rather than continuing their missions work so that was one downfall move on 1835 to 1840 so this is revival that happened in Hawaii if you can see on the map, Hawaii is near North America between North America and China an island so a group of islands there there was someone named Titus Kohn he was a preacher and he became a believer during the 2nd grade awakening so while he was in America while the 2nd grade awakening was happening he became a believer and about 20 years later he went to Hawaii to the Hilo Island and started to preach and teach among the people there two years later two years after he started to preach there was sparks of revival that started and it was a huge revival there were 15,000 people who started to attend the church in one they started a two-year camp meeting when that revival began they started so camp meetings were outdoor camp meetings they would meet in open fields people would come and stay there and listen to preachers throughout the day they would live in movable tents or in some kind of movable housing so they started something that went on for two years and every day there were 2-3,000 people present at those meetings for two years so that was the extent that was the impact of the revival the largest congregation at that time was formed in this tiny island and from this there were 60 self-supporting churches that were formed native pastors leading all of these churches 15,000 people attending the churches and by the end of it 70% of that island had come to Christ so that is a huge impact for such a large group of people to turn to Christ so all of these people would have been from the native would have been like native tribals all of that so from that faith they came to faith in Christ 1836 George Muller was a German Christian and he moved to England from Germany and began to take care of poor girls specifically so he first started to take care of 30 girls in their own house they had 30 girls living with them and they were taking care of them but as it grew to a much larger number they established an orphanage with 10,000 children here they had both boys and girls but was mostly girls still who were there and then 117 Christian schools were established with over 120,000 children so most of these children again were orphans so they were educating the poorer children and educating orphans so the biggest thing about George Muller is that he never did any fundraising he always believed in just trusting God for provision so there's a story where they were they were all gathered for breakfast and they all prayed and thanked God for breakfast but actually there was no food they didn't have any food there to give the children and while once they prayed the baker came and knocked on the door they heard a knock on the door they went and opened the door on the previous night to bake extra bread and bring it to them and so he brings the bread and when he brings the bread in they hear another knock on the door and they go out and the milkman's cart has broken down outside their orphanage and he didn't want all the milk to go bad so he gives them all his milk and their breakfast is there so that's just one example of how they saw God in him that they didn't go out trying to get people to support them they didn't go out and share their needs with people they simply prayed and kept trusting that God would provide each time that they needed so there's a quote from George Muller here I've joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith to say that that was all he was going to do he was just going to pray and believe and whatever he was able to do in life would be the result of that and that would show how powerful prayer and faith is so that's a very challenging thing I think when you know that you can get support there are people who would be willing to support your work but choose not to go out and ask for money not to share your needs with people to just trust with so many people depending on you it's not just for you or your family it's for so many children to believe God for that kind of provision is an amazing thing 1839 there's a missionary named William Chalmers Burns so he was from Scotland and he was from actually a family where his dad was a pastor and he grew up definitely in the faith but he never felt called to ministry his dad wanted him to go into ministry but he hadn't even been converted 1831 is when he actually he came to faith in Christ and when he came to faith in Christ he felt called to ministry so he left what he was doing to be trained to go as a missionary and 1839 he was called to preach in his pastors in his father's church his hometown was called Kilsith and he was supposed to just go there and preach for a few weeks but when he was preaching there there was such a great response the Holy Spirit was moving as he was preaching people were responding they were responding in conviction they were wanting God to move, there was repentance there was a desire to redevote themselves to God so as he was preaching he recognized that this was something that was the Holy Spirit it was not him he would constantly talk about this as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and pray that God himself would convert them and bring them to Christ he spent many many hours in prayer asking God to use him, asking God to bless others through him and so through this revival started to spread across Scotland through his preaching he then went to British Hong Kong in 1847 so although he was preaching here he had a burden for China even while he was being trained even as he was preaching he always wanted to go out on missions so 1847 he went to British Hong Kong and in 1855 is when he met Hudson Taylor so Hudson Taylor maybe most of you have heard of him but he considered William Burns to be his spiritual mentor so he had such a great impact on him and after 20 years of serving in China he passed away in 1868 okay is Sean here because David Livingston is the next no he's not here no he wasn't there okay so we'll just skip David Livingston and if he joins us tomorrow maybe we can he can present and so 1841 was when David Livingston went as a missionary to Africa and also the German evangelical Lutheran mission was formed so this was a mission society from Germany from the Lutheran church specifically and sent missionaries to other parts to many parts of the world so now we go to Hudson Taylor we just talked about him a missionary to China so at age 21 so he was really young he moved to China as a missionary so he was from England so an Englishman but as soon as he moved to China he felt it necessary to adopt Chinese culture so he started to wear Chinese clothes he tied his hair in what is called a pigtail so like a small braid but what he was doing was very different from the other missionaries there were missionaries who had been there for years who had been working there and they had not done that so for this new young missionary to come in and suddenly adopt all of these cultural practices was very strange for them so they started to ridicule what he was doing so in a way he was a bit ostracized from the larger missionary community because of that so he had a huge burden to go into England China although he arrived on the coast his desire was to go preach in the center of China and immediately after arriving within a year of learning the language and all that he started to move in England to preach to the Chinese people there so he was very very disciplined very hardworking sacrificed a lot for the missions work that he was called to but he also was physically unwell so he had to return to England to get treatment and while he was there he founded the China England mission so he had already become an independent missionary because the organization that had sent him was not well kind of operated they ran out of funds there was no support that he was receiving and he started to serve independently when he went back to England he founded the China England mission although he was sick and recovering and receiving treatment he started to recruit missionaries to join him in the work and he had very specific things that he was asking from the people there one of which was that they would have to wear Chinese clothes they would have to kind of fordop the culture there and the other was to go into the Inglings to to preach to the people on the insides not only on the coastal areas which was where a lot of the missions was already happening so he recruited a lot of people and this the missions group grew and multiplied very very quickly within a short period of time they did some amazing work and Hudson Taylor is known because of all the work that he did that he had the people he inspired the sacrifices he made but he also did it to an extent where he himself got sick and could not continue the work that he was doing so he says China this is a quote from him China is not to be one for Christ by quiet ease loving men and women the stamp of men and women we need is such as we'll put Jesus China and souls first and foremost in everything and at every time even life itself must be secondary so that was the way he did his missions work with a lot of sacrifice and expecting that from the missionaries who joined him as well so this is a really nice presentation I found that I've just put a link to here I'll just share it on the classroom as well that gives more detail about Hudson Taylor's life okay so 1853 we move on to someone named John Nevis he was from America and he was a Presbyterian from the Presbyterian church he also went to China in 1853 so he did travel was primarily by ship right to China so six month travel to China and he learned Chinese within a year he had a very systematic way of working so June to August every year he would have Bible studies in his house with 30 to 40 people who would be coming to his house men specifically that he would be training so it was like a mini seminary June to August every year the rest of the year he would be traveling throughout China on horseback he would go visit churches he would teach he would disciple people he had a lot of content that he had written so he all of this on Bible study methods how do you pray the Apostles Creed scripture passages that needed to be memorized rules and regulations for believers so he was very orderly very systematic about his faith and about the way the church should function so that's what he was taking to these churches as he was going there kind of overseeing what was happening what was the order they were following how was the church functioning and also teaching and helping people grow in their faith so he also had this like a systematic Bible study that was the group that he was meeting with he emphasized something called as church self-governance and discipline so this was actually a huge impact so it's now called the nevious method and it's something that was adopted by the Korean church why it was so important is that at this time all of the missionaries who were going there were supported by their sending organization and then they would raise up local pastors and leaders and those local pastors and leaders were still being supported by the missionary organization that had sent the missionaries so the problem was there was a lot of foreign funding which he felt was making the local people very dependent on outside funding it was also a way for the foreigners to still control what was happening in the church in the local church it was also something that kind of kept them from depending on God because they knew where their money was coming from they didn't have to ever depend on God providing for them it was all dependence on these missionaries on their sending organizations on these foreign funds that were coming in they started to emphasize that local leaders be raised and that they continue in whatever work they were doing so if they were working in some secular outside position they continue working in those roles and they serve as ministers in the church but if the church themselves wanted to start supporting these pastors that was up to the church so that did two things one thing was it made churches themselves decide that they were going to fund their spiritual leaders they were going to support their spiritual leaders it made them take ownership of the work that was being done the second thing was that these leaders were continuing to be in the marketplace so continuing to evangelize wherever they were so that was like the church would grow through their presence in the marketplace which was something again that was not happening church growth was not happening by evangelism continuing in that way so those were some of the big things that he impacted in the church and this is something that started to be adopted in churches outside of China as well okay so how we doing on time sorry I don't have my phone with me sorry okay okay just let me know when we are at close to the end okay so 1857 to 58 is when the layman's prayer revival started in New York we talked about this I think in our first class briefly and we look at it in the next chapter but this is known as the most widespread revival and what is amazing about it is that it was not led by any like big pastors, leaders, preachers it was the common just everyday people congregation attending church who started to meet for prayer so it started with a small group of people in New York who met for prayer during their lunchtime from work so they had a break at work they had lunchtime they would meet and pray from 6 people meeting for prayer it grew to 10,000 people meeting during a week day during their work day in the lunchtime so it was where these people saw an opportunity right they saw that okay we are all at work we all have a break time this is an opportunity for us to gather and pray and we are going to use that opportunity it was just a very simple thing but God moved powerfully through it for that group to increase in that way and then two years there were one million people converted so one million people came to Christ just from people meeting at lunch for prayer and one million people within the church were restored to faith so there was revival that happened within the church and this actually spread all over not only all over America but all over the world so to Europe in Wales, Scotland Ireland, Britain, Germany, Sweden Netherlands then outside of Europe to the West Indies to South Africa to Indonesia okay so just this thing of lay people meeting to pray that thing spread to all of these places so this is one of the accounts of how it's spread from New York it's spread to Northern Ireland so this was the state of Northern Ireland before the revival happened it's the accounts of three ministers so they've shared about what was happening in their churches before the revival hit them so that same layman's prayer group that happened in New York spread to Ireland but before it spread to Ireland this was the state of the church so one pastor says before the revival our condition was deplorable we were dead cold, prayer less worldly two times I tried to start a prayer meeting with elders but failed the people did not only not want to pray they were almost hostile towards prayer meetings they thought we were doing fine and I was unnecessarily disturbing them so like people were not at all interested in meeting for prayer and they were not only interested in prayer they were just disinterested in spiritual things so the problem was not that they were disinterested was that they thought that everything was okay this is how the church is supposed to be then another pastor another minister says there seemed great coldness and deadness I had preached the gospel faithfully earnestly and plainly for 11 years yet it was not known to me a single individual had been converted okay so 11 years of a very earnest preacher so it's not that the pastor was failing here he was not doing his job of preaching the gospel he was doing everything that he needed to do but not one person was converted in 11 years so that's something for us also to consider while we say look at the fruit of your work is it bearing is it having impact is also like look at the hearts of the people you may be doing all that you are called to do and you may be very faithful to what you're called to do but it may be that the hearts of people are not yet open and they're not in a place where they are spiritually receptive so it's just an amazing testimony of this man's faithfulness in spite of that he didn't move on to another place and that's why he was able to also experience the fruit of the revival so even though he hadn't seen it for these 11 years his faithfulness to continue doing the work that he was called to then saw fruit when God moved so yeah and last account the congregation was all together laodition the spiritual state was depressing and hopeless so just to say that everyone was basically luquam it was there was so much cultural Christianity right everyone would call themselves a Christian but it was just like any other thing you would say about yourself right I'm from this place and I'm a Christian it's just like a description of who you are nothing else nothing about what you believe or the state of your heart or anything like that so what happened when this prayer movement impacted island so hearing about the revival that was happening in New York there were there started to be a hunger for revival within island and specifically among four men their names are James McQuilkin, John Wallace Robert Carlisle, Jeremiah Manili and they started to meet for prayer in September 1857 in a place called Ulster so a large part of what you're looking at on this map is Ulster which is in North Island Northern Island so they started to meet for prayer and within a little more than a year so September 1857 they started meet for prayer by early 1859 104 prayer groups had been formed just from that one prayer group of four people and these prayer groups were meeting almost all day and all night because of meeting at different times meeting around island by March that same year there was a prayer meeting that was organized by one of those four people and his name was James McQuilkin and as he was having this prayer so all this time there were these small groups that were meeting so he wanted to do a prayer for all of the people who had been meeting to just do a prayer meeting with everyone so around 300 people gathered and it was raining and they were in the mud but they were all there praying the Holy Spirit just moved in power there were about 100 people that just fell to the ground under conviction of sin as he was as they were there meeting in prayer by May that year so this meeting happened in March by May the whole town was affected by this prayer meeting the Holy Spirit had started to move in the town people were being saved physically like what we talked about these people falling to the ground under conviction other manifestations like that where people were visibly under the power of the Holy Spirit and children as well started to join this prayer movement and started to pray powerfully in these movements from Ulster it started so it spread within Ulster within that whole town and started to spread within various counties so all of these names that you can see there are other counties in Northern Ireland to which the revival spread by the end of that revival there were 100,000 people who had joined the church so there are some just accounts of what happened as this revival spread so there is a place called Browshain where a factory was closed because for two days 20 of their workers were on the floor of the factory just crying out to God so they couldn't continue their work and they shut down the factory for two days in another fair they were having a country fair and there were 5000 people who were present but that fair itself turned into a prayer meeting so they were out just in like a carnival type setting and the whole carnival turned into a prayer meeting because the Holy Spirit moved there there were families that were restored there were homes that were changed there were lives that were changed there was a place named Belfast I don't know if that's on your map yeah it is Belfast where they where one of their breweries so their alcohol breweries were closed people were not drinking there were no prisoners in custody so just huge changes impact on society and what's amazing is that was just through a simple thing of faithfulness to pray just among very very normal common people not anyone big not anyone important not anyone super gifted or anointed just people were willing to pray and continue to do that for as long as it took to see God move so just encouraging for us and challenging I think so from here from Ireland the same revival so what started in New York spread to Ireland and then from Ireland spread to Wales Wales, Scotland and England so if you look on your map that's all this area Wales is here Scotland is up here and England is down there so all of these places were impacted by revival Humphrey Jones had been in America for two years and so he returned to Wales and just had this burden for people and so he started to preach and there was also another Calvinist Methodist David Morgan he heard Humphrey preaching and he started to work with them so both of them went to Wales and they were preaching and through their preaching there was revival that was starting people were responding to the Gospel people were being saved children were being saved and even in the coal mines there was a lot of coal work that was happening there so people in their work were being revived 1860 revival in Scotland and England so this was all everything was sparked by the previous thing so from New York the people in Ireland saw what was happening in New York they wanted to see that happen in Ireland here someone from America went to Wales and took what was happening in America impacted Wales so from Wales now it spreads to Scotland and England because they can see what's happening in their neighbouring country and they start to pray for revival so 1860 the church begins to pray for revival and soon there are 40,000 so this is a very exact number 40,549 people attending weekly prayers so large number of people 1205 prayer meetings happening weekly and apart from those 1205 meetings there are 129 interdenominational meetings so why is that important is that there was unity within the church which is a big thing that we talk about in revival that there is increased unity among believers so although these were from other denominations and denominations were generally quite divided at this time they came together to pray for revival 300,000 people were saved in Scotland and 650,000 people saved in England that's huge huge numbers people to be impacted people to be drawn to Christ in this same year there were reports of revival in other parts of the world so Jamaica, South Africa all of these places were impacted by the same revival that kind of spread from from Wales from Scotland England to other parts of the world so we will stop there and continue tomorrow I think tomorrow will be mostly the presentations and if we have some time we will we will continue from there so just a reminder to go back to that sheet and check and make sure you know your right date so some of you are tomorrow and some of you are next week just make sure that you are prepared for your presentation thank you