Book Review
Flashpoints of Revival by Geoff Waugh (Revival Press, 1998)
Review from The Foreword by Dr C. Peter Wagner, Fuller Theological Seminary
Geoff Waugh and I agree that our generation is likely to be an eye witness to the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that history has ever known. Many others join us in this expectation, some of them sensing that it will come in the next few years.
I have heard more reports of revival-like activity in the past three years than in the previous thirty. This has caused revival to be a more frequent topic of Christian conversation than I have ever seen. There is an extraordinary hunger for learning more about how the hand of God works in revival.
That is a major reason why Flashpoints of Revival is such a timely book. Christian libraries are well stocked with detailed accounts of certain revivals as well as scholarly analytical histories of revival. But I know of no other book like this one that provides rapid-fire, easy-to-read, factual literary snapshots of virtually every well-known revival since Pentecost.
As I read this book, I was thrilled to see how God has been so mightily at work in so many different times and places. I felt like I had grasped the overall picture of revival for the first time, and I was moved to pray that God, indeed, would allow me
not to be just an observer, but rather a literal participant in the worldwide outpouring that will soon come. As you read the book, I am sure you will be saying the same thing.
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Flashpoints of Revival
The contents of Flashpoints of Revival:
Foreword by C. Peter Wagner
Preface and Introduction
1. Eighteenth Century
1727 - Wednesday 13 August - Herrnhut, Germany (Nicholas von Zinzendorf)
1735 - January - New England, America (Jonathan Edwards)
1739 - Thursday 1 January - London, England (George Whitefield, John Wesley)
1745 - Thursday 8 August - Crossweeksung, America (David Brainerd)
1781 - Tuesday 25 December - Cornwall, England
2. Nineteenth Century
1800 - June-July - Red and Gasper Rivers, America (James McGready)
1801 - August - Cane Ridge, America (Barton Stone)
1821 - Wednesday 10 October - Adams, America (Charles Finney)
1858 - March - New York, America (Jeremiah Lanphier)
1859 - Monday 14 March - Ulster, Ireland (James McQuilkin)
1859 - Sunday 22 May - Natal, South Africa (Zulus)
1871 - October - New York, America (D. L. Moody)
3. Early Twentieth Century
1904 - Monday 31 October - Loughor, Wales (Evan Roberts)
1905 - Friday 30 June - Mukti, India (Pandita Ramabai)
1906 - Saturday 14 April - Los Angeles, America (William Seymour)
1907 - Monday 7 January - Pyongyang, Korea
1909 - Sunday 4 July - Valparaiso, Chile (Willis Hoover)
1921 - Monday 7 March - Lowestroft, England (Douglas Brown)
1936 - Wednesday 24 June - Gahini, Rwanda (East African Revival)
4. Mid-twentieth Century
1947 - April-July - North America (Healing Evangelism Revival)
1948 - Thursday 12 February - Saskatchewan, Canada (Sharon Bible School)
1949 - Hebrides Islands, Scotland (Duncan Campbell)
1951 - Monday 4 June - City Bell, Argentina (Ed Miller)
1965 - Sunday 26 September - Soe, Timor (Mel Tari)
1970 - Tuesday 3 February - Wilmore, Kentucky
1970 - Thursday 27 August - Solomon Islands (Muri Thompson)
1971 - Wednesday 13 October - Saskatoon, Canada (Bill McCleod)
1973 - Friday 28 September - Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Todd Burke)
5. Late Twentieth Century
1975 - April - Gaberone, Botswana (Reinhard Bonnke)
1979 - Wednesday 14 March - Elcho Island, Australia (Ginijini Gondarra)
1979 - Sunday 13 May - Anaheim, America (John Wimber)
1979 - June - Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Rodney Howard-Browne)
1988 - Thursday 4 August - Kambaidam, Papua New Guinea (Johan van Bruggen)
1988 - Madruga, Cuba
1989 - Henan and Anhul, China
6. Final Decade, Twentieth Century
1992 - Argentina - Claudio Freidzon
1993 - Sunday 2 May - Brisbane, Australia (Neil Miers)
1994 - Thursday 20 January - Toronto, Canada (John Arnott, Randy Clark)
1994 - Sunday 29 May - Brompton, London (Eleanor Mumford)
1994 - Sunday 14 August - Sunderland, England (Ken Gott)
1995 - Sunday 1 January - Melbourne, Florida (Randy Clark)
1995 - Sunday 15 January - Modesto, California (Glenn and Debbie Berteau)
1995 - Sunday 22 January - Brownwood, Texas (College Revivals)
1995 - Sunday 18 June - Pensacola, Florida (Steve Hill)
1995 - Friday 27 October - Mexico (David Hogan)
1996 - Sunday 20 October - Houston, Texas (Richard Heard)
Conclusion
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