 Good morning everyone. Before we begin, can anyone open us in prayer please? Jesus, we thank you for this day that you've blessed us with and Lord you thank you for this time that we can come together to learn about the people who stood up for their faith and who lived your gospel and who we use mightily for your kingdom of Father. I pray that we would be inspired as we hear the stories and that um and that uh thank you Jesus that you'll continue continue to minister to us and that we'll have a good time together in your name. Amen. Thank you. Um so we'll just continue from where we stopped yesterday uh yeah so yesterday we just started to look at um now church growth in our present day as one of the main ways that uh god is continuing to move within the church uh specifically through mega churches and we looked at one of them which is the one in south korea so um yoida full gospel church uh so that church uh is now maybe not the largest but at one point was the largest church um and continues to be one of the top three largest churches in the world um we moved from there to uh this is so i'm taking this from our notes because the our book was written in 2015 and uh this church the international charismatic mission bogota colombia was one of the largest churches at that time um it no longer is but uh since it's in our notes i included it so um the church grew from about eight people to over 200 000 people that is at the time at around 2015 and um it's yeah one of the largest churches in the world there's another church in colombia um in the same city of bogota which is the place of his presence it's called and that's also one of the largest churches in the world um at present um did we look at this the revival in argentina yes i know okay so uh 1992 um there was a pastor named claudio fridzen um and he was pastor of a church called Buenos Aires uh in argentina and he began to seek the lord personally so for himself uh seeking the holy spirit and uh as he was seeking the holy spirit the holy spirit touched him powerfully and through that touch of the holy spirit his ministry changed dramatically um so from there uh he began to preach and teach in the church on the holy spirit and there was a renewed hunger for god uh new emphasis so a desire for personal holiness for prayer uh to see the holy spirit moves uh in power in them it's as they gathered as a church um so this is a quote from him about that time he says pastors were seeking methods for church growth but methods were not the answer uh and his advice was there is no method we must seek the presence of god my message is simple i'm emphasizing the presence of the holy spirit um and so that was the key to the growth of their church and the move of the holy spirit among them was rather than seeking methods or seeking ways to reach people that were human uh methods or ways of uh doing that uh he sought the holy spirit himself uh and that was key um so 1992 also uh in the us uh there was a man named rod rodney howard brown uh so he was from south africa he was an evangelist and he moved in 1987 through the us um in 1989 he uh was preaching at clifton park new york um and during that time there was science wonders miracles that were displayed through that time people were saved healed delivered they encountered the presence of god and uh also um soon after that around 1992 there was also breaking of laughter within that move so people would start laughing in the holy spirit and so it's called the laughing revival uh in 1993 uh he met with randy clark who is a vineyard pastor so randy clark had been praying and hungering for more of the holy spirit and so he came to meet rodney howard uh and asked him to pray over him for more of the holy spirit and so he prayed over him uh five times in that meeting and from there randy clark went back to his church and uh there was a supernatural outpouring on the vineyard church because of this uh encounter with rodney howard um so the vineyard church then started to see a move of the holy spirit in their services and also in their pastors meetings uh we'll see how that spread from the us within the vineyard church to canada so um so pastor john and carol anant were pastors of a vineyard church in toronto canada and uh they had been praying for a move of god they were hungering for god to move and uh as they saw and heard about revivals in different places they would travel to those places to see what god was doing there and to experience that in 1993 they met claudio fridzen so we just talked about him in the revival in argentina so they met with him and he prayed over them and they received a powerful impartation but they still want to see more happening in their meetings so for them personally they experienced holy spirit but they felt that god wanted to do something in the meetings itself to be impacting people and so they in 94 they hosted a four-day conference with randy clark randy clark was the one who was prayed over by rodney howard and during that time randy clark shared his own experience of what he'd experienced in the through revival and then invited people to come to the altar asking if they would like to receive it so 120 people had attended that and as he shared his testimony people started to come but before they could even come to the altar some people were falling down wherever they were seated just falling down in the presence of the lord and were not able to get up uh there was shaking trembling uh laughing crying speaking in tongues so it was something that was not very that was not what people were expecting it was a little unusual for them but in the midst of that there was emotional and physical healing and deliverance that was happening and so that was evidence that this was really god moving uh in that time uh so by the end of 1995 uh 600 000 people from almost every nation in the world had visited toronto because of this revival and in that one year there were 900 first time converts people who came to faith and lots of churches were also impacted through this revival so there's it's listed here holy trinity brompton church in the uk betel church in redding california and heidi and roland baker of iris ministries so through this revival all of these ministries were impacted so what we're seeing today in these churches can be uh kind of uh tracked back to the toronto revival uh 95 to 2000 we look at the pensacola revival this happened in a place called uh the brownsville assembly of god um and um there was a speaker from london uh his name was steven hill and so he was sharing his experience of how he had seen god move in uh revival in a church in england um so what had happened was there's a pastor's wife from this church in england which was the london vineyard church she went to toronto uh and after visiting toronto went back to her church uh which was an anglican church uh so the anglican church is a little more traditional um definitely not very charismatic but she visited that uh toronto revival went back to a church share the testimony and god started to move powerfully in that church and from that church into other churches um and so this uh evangelist steven hill had visited that church and the pastor there prayed for him and he then experienced revival so now he went to this other church in pensacola and he's sharing his experience and revival starts to break out there in that church um so revival services began there and continued for five years uh there were three hundred three million people from around the world who visited um who visited this revival because they wanted to see what god was doing um there was strong preaching there was repentance there was conviction of sin there was renewal spiritually among the people asking more of asking for more of the holy spirit and from here the brownsville revival school of ministry also started and sent 120 uh sent graduates 222 nations so it they not only like spread revival as they were sending people out but they were also equipping people through the school of ministry and then impacting nations um so what led to this revival was that two years earlier the pastor had been praying had started praying for revival so we see that as a throughout these revival stories right that someone has been praying and then revival breaks out it's never that no one was looking for revival no one was desiring it and it just came uh it's always there is a hunger there is a thirst and god answers or god comes in response to that but one sad thing within this church was that uh they started to become there were some problems in the leadership and finally that church itself people started to leave the church so that work didn't continue with the same power but uh still some church historians call this the most significant church based renewal of the 20th century because of the impact that it had next we come to india um 2006 2007 okay i think the this thing slide went off one minute sorry so 2006 2007 i'm not sure how many of you heard about the shillong revival did any of y'all know okay uh so um this the revival that we read about the welsh revival which happened in 1906 had actually reached uh shillong in 1906 so when it was coming to 100 years after that that revival they wanted to do a celebration within the church and so two years before the revival celebration that hundred years was going to be celebrated they started to pray for god to move again in the same way uh that was within the presbyterian church and so when during this celebration in april 2006 during that hundred year celebration uh there were 150 000 people gathered at the presbyterian church um and god suddenly moved people came people felt very convicted of their sins there was miraculous conversions people actually stayed in that service and continued to sing for hours even though it was raining they were in that service um from that time there were many there were many deliverances that happened among alcoholics there was restoration of broken families uh there were children who saw visions of angels of heaven and hell um within within school classes would be disrupted because children would just start to break out in prayer and start to sing uh so the regular classes were not continuing and uh within the presbyterian church there's a maliki presbyterian church there was a cross uh that was hung there and that cross started to glow um and continued to glow for a few days so that was some of the things that happened in revival i actually visited shalom that year um in december and visited this church by the time the cross had stopped glowing but we saw the church at that time and heard from a lot of children who had visions uh and seen angels and all of that service quite there was just a light that came from behind yeah so there was a light that came on that cross and nobody knew what that was like there was no explanation of why that light was there and it was just glowing like that for a few days um so there are like physical things like that that have happened that people don't know how to explain um but this was one of those things i think i'm sure there are online yeah other things it was just a wooden cross that was in the front of the church but from that cross there was a light that was okay so um yeah from there we moved to calvary temple which is another very large church so one of the mega churches and one of the top three mega churches in the world uh and it's in hyderabad india uh so it started in 2005 um by um pastor satish kumar he started it with 25 people uh and today it has over 3 000 members within the church uh the emphasis within the church is on preaching and teaching god's word and they've used a lot of television and that has helped with their growth so um within um within hyderabad and outside within the state i think or even outside television has been made a huge impact and helped the ministry grow so we actually have come to the end of this full church history of revivals uh from acts till present day uh we'll just look at what are some things we're seeing in the present day moves of god and what are some key things we've seen in these revivals as we've looked at all of these revivals what are some things that we've seen happen in most or all of the revivals and things that we can take away from it um so in present day uh what we're seeing emphasized within the church is god's manifest presence uh and his glory within the church so rather than seeing signs wonders rather than seeing healings all of those things which we still um want to see and we're still pursuing uh we are also there is a greater emphasis on becoming people who carry god's presence and people who take his presence into wherever we go so whatever spheres that we are influencing and impacting to be carriers of his presence into those places um so rather than uh seeing god come like the holy spirit fall and move within us as a visitation or an outpouring uh it is for us to become a place so people who carry the presence of god a habitation of god uh like how we see in the old testament where god's presence descended on the temple right so to be those kinds of people who are carrying his presence in that kind of power um so it that means uh we have to be people who are prepared to carry his presence in that way uh to be spiritually hungry and thirsting for his presence um to be allowing him to move in our lives to purify us to refine us to uh fully allow him to have that place in our lives uh so a lot of this has come from what has happened in the past like we talked about this uh we looked at these revivals because we want to build on what has happened in the past we want to draw from past experiences within the church and we want to take all of that and go higher and deeper and further in our uh experience of god's presence uh so that is the whole intent of looking at all of these revivals um so some of the ministries that are emphasizing this the presence and glory of god um is the bishop bill hammond so christian christian international dot com rodney howard brown revival dot com john and carol arnett catch the fire dot com randy clark global awakening dot com bill johnson deathill dot com and hidee baker iris global so um all of these ministries if you notice what they are emphasizing what they are seeing in their ministries it's all of this uh so carrying the presence of god and manifesting his glory in our midst we look at key observations from all of these revivals um the first one is the connection between reformation revival restoration missions and church growth so we saw that in acts we saw the holy spirit moving in power we saw uh how the church was experiencing the holy spirit in their midst and then we saw how the church slowly lost out on all of that and we went into the dark ages so what brought the church back into this period of revivals was the reformation uh so the reformation by reformation we mean a discovery of what is god's truth and then aligning ourselves to god's truth so that is key before we can then move into revival so to first understand what is the truth that god wants the church to be walking in and then to align ourselves to it and then we start to experience god's presence and god's working when we are walking in his truth um and so the revival is seeing god's presence seeing god's move in our midst restoration is the church growing into new levels uh of god's glory so recognizing more of god's glory experiencing more of god's glory and the church being prepared so the pouring out of new wine right so the church itself the culture within the church changing uh so that we have we are prepared to receive the new things that god wants to give us um and then from there we see church growth so it's as the church is being restored as a church is changing um and becoming that new wine skin that we then are able to send people out on missions to reach other people and to see the church growth so to impact the communities we are in and to impact the nations the next thing is that there have been seasons of global revival so um here's a list of all of these times when god was moving in multiple places around the world so revival uh doesn't necessarily have to happen in one place at one time it usually spreads and uh there are times when god actually moves almost all around the world because revival sparks in all of these places either starting in one place and spreading to other places or happening almost simultaneously in several places like the reformation actually so um what do we see that helps this revival spread is that the stories as people hear about these revivals in other places they start praying for it they start seeking it and then god brings revival to those places um we also see that uh it is an opportunity for us as we see something happening in another place to then start to seek it for ourselves so we don't want to copy methods or we try to follow exactly what they're doing or duplicate what they're doing but we seek what is god revealing in that time through that revival what is being accomplished spiritually uh how is he uh growing that church and then we desire that for our church and we start to seek that for our own church so that we are in tune with what god is doing globally and we are ready to receive it at the time that he chooses to come to our locations to our churches um so some of those global revivals is the first great awakening 1725 to 1750 we saw that in North America Scotland England Germany so parts of Europe and North America 1780 to 1810 the second great awakening which began in England and then spread to North America South Africa Europe and other parts of the world uh 1830 to 1840 the general or third awakening that again was in North America and Europe uh 1857 to 1858 the layman's prayer revival which started in New York and then went into Northern Ireland Wales Scotland England Jamaica and South Africa and then 1900 to 1910 the Pentecostal revival which has happened across like all parts of the world almost on every continent um so yeah those are examples of global revivals um another thing is that those who were impacted by revivals became carriers of revival so in some cases we see that a church experienced revival and then sent people out uh to go and tell others about revival so we see that um examples from the Asbury revival uh from the revival in Topeka Kansas the bible college there where they went out and started to teach whatever they had experienced they started to take that into churches and that spread the revival on the other hand we see people who go and seek revival for themselves and then take it back to their places so like Randy Clark from the vineyard church went to receive prayer um like the the Toronto vineyard church as well the pastors from there went to seek prayer uh so they were visiting different places trying to experience God in those places so that they could see it in their churches so those are some ways in which revival spreads through people um another thing is focused intentional pursuit of God often paves the way for revival so uh we see throughout these revivals that somebody was praying whether it is two people or four people or the church as a whole or just the pastor uh somebody had been praying and had been committed to prayer for revival not just praying every now and then but we see where time was committed to revivals right like um where they were praying from 10 p.m to 3 a.m tea days a week for a few months before God answers that so seeing that kind of prayer um the the revival with um what is their names the hernat community so they're 100 years of 24 hours of prayer uh it's that kind of commitment to seeking the Lord in prayer and hungering and thirsting after God and inviting him uh to come into our communities that brings revival um and then sharing revival stories often ignites revival so where um you share of something that's happening in another place you may not have gone there and experienced it but you were you've heard of the stories sharing those stories uh sparks revival or sparks a desire for revival and then people begin to pray for it um so we have a quote from Jay Edwin Orr here there have been instances in the history of the church when the telling and retelling of wonderful works of God have been used to rekindle the expectations of the faithful intercessors and prepare the way for another awakening so it's when we tell these stories people start to desire it people start to expect it for themselves and are inspired to seek God to move in their own churches in their own places uh and so that's why it's important to be looking at these stories like what we've done through the last few weeks uh to look at all of these stories so that our hearts come to a place of expectation for God to move uh in our midst as well okay so we'll um just look at Reformation uh some of the reformers and the Reformation what we learn from them and what we can take back for ourselves for the present day church um so the few reformers that we looked at were John Wickliffe, John Hus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, George Fox so this is on pages 34 to 39 in your textbook where we talked about the Reformation and all of these people um so Reformation is the act of removing things that are problematic within the church correcting things that are wrong in the church and uh coming to a place of uh rightness with God rightness with what God wants uh so an act of improving an act of correcting ourselves and aligning ourselves to what is true uh and so that all of these people that we looked at the reformers they paved the way for revivals to start within the church uh it was as the church made came back to what is true what is right uh that revivals began to be seen within the church uh and through those revivals then there is restoration within the church and there is a move of missions and church growth so some of the characteristics of these reformers is that they themselves had a deep relationship with God um so that is a key right for us to be personally walking with God uh to have a revelation of who God is so that we are then able to stand strong in the face of uh the challenges that will come up when we are calling the church to do something that maybe nobody wants to hear we should be able to be able to stand for that and how we can stand for that is our relationship with God our revelation of this I know is what God has revealed to me is true and I can stand for it um they had yeah so the next thing they had the stand to stand alone so even when most of the church was against them uh when it was just one of them a few of them they were so strong in what they believed what uh God had showed them that they were unwavering even in spite of being alone in those uh challenges uh they had the courage to speak even though they were facing religious social political systems right so they were speaking against those systems of that day that was so powerful uh and would definitely result in their death right so all of these people or most of them were martyred for what they had uh said right what they had called the church to so they had the courage to speak even though that would be the end they knew that death would be the end they knew that they were going against the powerful people of their day they weren't afraid to do that um they were willing to lay down their lives for the truth they believed um and whenever possible so they used uh different tools and platforms to proclaim their message so they uh at this time because it was mostly limited to writing they used writing they used preaching to let other people know the truth so uh not to just keep that to themselves or to fight for it themselves but spread that teaching spread that truth as far as they could even if they themselves would not be physically alive to continue to speak it their written works continue to impact the church even after their death and so um that is some things that we can learn from these reformers so we'll close with this slide um we need reformers today okay apart from what I've mentioned here why do you all think we need reformers within the church apart from what's mentioned on the slide any thoughts on do we need reformers and why first of all because uh jesus coming soon okay yeah yeah and the church should be prepared right to be that bride um of christ yeah uh and also like um it's actually getting harder to win people because the world is getting more uh influential and so it's harder to draw people and so we have to try to reach out as much as we can and be creative in a way that we try to bring them in yeah and if you look at these revivals it was really the holy spirit who was drawing people right like what we read uh about uh one of these revivals he said the people were choosing methods were looking for those kinds of things uh programs methods to reach people but uh I I've chosen the holy spirit like I've sought after the holy spirit and so that is key because when people see the holy spirit moving the holy spirit himself will draw them um and yeah that's so important any other thoughts my online students as well okay we'll uh just go through this content then um why we need reformers today we need people who are unafraid to address things that are hindering the church so oftentimes we have things within the church that keep us from moving forward that keep us from experiencing god in new ways um it maybe just traditions that have become a part of the church maybe things that have been held on to for so long that it's very difficult to hear that this is wrong or this is something we will no longer practice but to have people who can stand up and say um this is wrong even if you're saying it to the whole church to the church worldwide or to your local church to be that bold to say it um to uh we need people who will proclaim the truth so uh who will say what is right and be willing to challenge what has been accepted as this is the way we do things right so be willing to challenge that uh reformers help us see things that have blinded us as a church so um we may not be able to see truth because we've only known this this one way of doing things or this one one thing that was taught to us and we're not able to see beyond that so they help bring truth help us open our eyes to what is true um they help us break past limitations so um so we see that uh even with the like the stopping of seeing the holy spirit move in the church right that was something that was a limitation that was put upon people they didn't think that we could see the holy spirit move in that way anymore but it is because the reformers call people back to the study of the word and said that the word itself is the authority for the church it is not uh it's not the church leaders not the popes not the priests it is the word and so that's what took people back to the word to look at what is the what does the bible teach and what should we be experiencing in our church according to the bible and that's what opened people up to seeing the holy spirit move within the church um and the last is help us deal with things that we have accepted as the norm so those things um maybe the things that are holding us back from moving uh with god into the next level of seeing god do more in our midst and ushering us into greater levels of revelation of who he is of greater experiences of his presence in our midst uh so uh the reformers help us uh to recognize those things and then to deal with them to take them out of our midst so that they no longer are hindrances so yeah we pray that each of us would be people who kind of take this for ourselves personally as a challenge uh to become people like this right to be people who speak the truth without fear who are able to call people through god's ways even if it means we're challenging authorities to be people who are so in tune with god's truth so in line with who god is that we are able to say whatever we have to say with boldness with confidence in knowing that what we're saying is revealed by god and then to be able to invite other people into that truth to experience it for themselves um so we'll close here we'll continue next week i need to take a look at um your next few assignments so i'll try and look at that and post things during the week because we have i think a little over a month for the rest of the semester so i'll uh just look out on google classroom for any notifications i'll also take a look at how much more how we're doing in our progress on course content and then if needed i'll try and post a video as well to cover some of our content yes yeah yes yeah so i had actually put four assignments for this semester um and we've only done one so far so i'll post maybe two and then the last one will be a quiz which i'll do at the end of the semester so uh it's not going to be it's going to be like a paper reflection paper yeah both are papers okay the quiz will be multiple choices yeah okay thank you all see you next week