You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Duncan Campbell’ category.
One of the best definitions of revival is by Duncan Campbell. Revival is…
“a community saturated with God!”
(quoted in Revival: A People Saturated With God by Brian H. Edwards, 26).
Is there any reason why the Church today cannot everywhere equal the Church at Pentecost? I feel that this is a question that we ought to face with an open mind and an honest heart. What did the early Church have that we do not possess today? Nothing but the Holy Spirit, nothing but the power of God. Here I would suggest that one of the main secrets of success in the early Church lay in the fact that the early believers believed in UNCTION FROM ON HIGH, AND NOT ENTERTAINMENT FROM MEN. One of the very sad features that characterizes much that goes under the name of evangelism today is the craze for entertainment. Read more of Campbell’s Price and Power of Revival
As found on Path2Prayer.com
Duncan Campell was a Scottish preacher who played a key role in that took place in the Scottish Hebrides, sometimes also referred to as the Lewis Awakening. He began walking witih God through the work of “pilgrims” of the Faith Mission in 1913. He later served as a pastor in other churches, but eventually returned to the Faith Mission 1949, working in Skye. Eventually Cambpell accepted a call to come to the Hebrides Islands, a call prompted by the prayers of two gaelic-speaking sisters in their 80′s who had been praying for revival.
Almost immediately upon arriving, God began working in a special way, and scores of people experienced spiritual renewal. As a result of his personal experience with these revival experiences, he began to speak much on the subject of revival. In later life he led a training school for the Faith Mission in Edinburgh. He was known as a man of much prayer. Duncan Campbell was outspoken on two aspects of the Holy Spirit during his ministry that caused many to come and hear him, and drove others away.
The first aspect being that a true revival was a move of God that affected not only church members but the surrounding community in a way that was visible to all parties concerned (work stopping, bars closing, crime ceasing, etc). The second aspect of God he preached on was the definite experience of the baptism of the Holy Ghost subsequent to conversion, that was often seen to transform a pastor’s efforts from meager to community-changing. His sermons offer much food for thought!
“A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.”
Duncan CampbellIn other words, we need revival!
Are we praying for it?
Brian H. Edwards, in my favorite book on revival, Revival! A People Saturated With God, writes that Duncan Campbell…
…declared again and again that true revival is a revival; of holiness and that holiness is more desirable than happiness.
One man, converted under the preaching of Campbell, claimed that his conversion cost him $10,000.00;* he had to return to America and work for a year ‘to make restitution for things I had done as a sinner’ (121).
*this took place in 1949
Duncan Campbell experienced revival. Here is his take on praying for it…
Desire for revival is one thing;
Confident anticipation that our desire will be fulfilled is another”
(quoted in Brian Edwards, Revival! A People Saturated With God, 75).
Duncan Campbell experienced genuine revival on the Isle of Lewis in the late 1940′s. His simple definition of revival is:
Revival is a people saturated with God.
When I think of being “saturated”, I think of being soaked with water. I also think about the ground feeling like a sponge because it is filled with water. If we (our church, our small group, our campus, our youth group, etc.) are saturated with God, then we are filled with his presence and power and fruitfulness. And they only thing that matters is His Glory!
May we be a people saturated with God!
Bryan
bryanaloha
Recent Comments