{Revival}[11th May 1988]

[Redbook5:119-120][19880511:1920]{Revival}[11^th May 1988]

19880511.1920

I have been listening to tapes leant to me by my Fundamentalist friend* – some fascinating, some altogether off my wavelength. I did notice, however, a correspondence between the end of a speech by Edwin Orr,** 'The Revival of 1905' (Anchor Recordings AG 644), and a passage in [2] which summarises the development of the Great Net in the first cycle of five (or six) fictions (as well as containing a reassuring confirmation of my own decisions):

'I believe that the Holy Spirit that sent William Carey*** to India,

put Wilberforce**** in Parliament.

God chooses our life work for us.

We're not all called to be full-time evangelists: We're all called to witness for Christ,

as Wilberforce did.

'That's the pattern:		“First there was One,
The Outpouring,		then four...
the Reviving,#		then there were many, the Net.#*
the Awakening,#**		“Next, more will select themselves, for an indirect communication;
the Evangelising,		then, they will select others,
the Teaching,		who will influence the rest.”
the Reforming.		([–][2] 3-3)#***

'That happens in every great Revival.'

[– Edwin Orr,* 'The Revival of 1905']

The parallel is not exact,; but close.

*[See [Redbook5:51-61][19880314:1115]{Fundamental Points of View}[14th March 1988]ff]

**[James Edwin Orr (January 15, 1912 – April 22, 1987)[1] was a Baptist Christian minister, hymn-writer, professor, author[2] and promoter of Church revival and renewal. (Wikipedia)]

***[William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was a British Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India. (Wikipedia)]

****[William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming an independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. (Wikipedia)]

#(of the Church)

#*cf. [1], end: 'We have energised the Net'.[#**] (I remembered this incorrectly as 're-activated' – possibly how I wanted to write it.)

#**(of non-Church-members)

#***[subject to revision; & the chapter ref ‘3-3’ is almost certainly obsolete.]

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What is interesting about the left-hand progression is that it represents a development of increasing application – i.e. of decreasing purity; or, out into the Separation. But can it be brought home, back to its origin? –

		C
		|
	Outpouring\		/Reforming
Reviving	–	+	–	Teaching
	Awakening/		\Evangelising
		|

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