Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4157. The Brownsville Revival was a sustained season of intense meetings that began on Father’s Day in 1995 at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, and continued for several years. It drew enormous crowds, with people queuing for hours and travelling great distances, and it became one of the most talked-about religious events…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4156. The Toronto Blessing is the name given to a wave of unusual religious phenomena that began in 1994 at a church near Toronto airport and spread to thousands of congregations across the world. For a few years it was almost impossible to be part of charismatic church life in Britain without encountering it…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 09037 The word “revival” stirs strong feelings in the church. For some, it conjures images of historic movements that transformed entire communities. For others, it evokes the manufactured emotionalism of modern conference culture, where hype is mistaken for the Holy Spirit’s work. The question deserves careful biblical examination, because what Scripture describes and what…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 60073 In the late spring of 2016, news began spreading through British evangelical and charismatic networks that something unusual was happening on the streets of Reading. The Gate Church, a Baptist congregation led by Yinka Oyekan, had invited American evangelist Tommie Zito to lead a week of street evangelism. The week became four weeks,…