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Florida Revival

If you’ve looked at anything even remotely ‘Christian’ on the internet recently, you’ve almost certainly heard about the so-called ‘Florida Revival’.

Recently a couple of people have written some very insightful commentaries that I wanted to point to.

Terry Virgo has two very good posts. Absolutely recommended:

Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland, Florida (continued)

Adrian Warnock has a round-up of Jesse Phillips thoughts here:

Jesse Phillips Gives His Final Conclusions on the Lakeland, Florida ‘Revival Meetings’ with Todd Bentley

and his own thoughts here:

Todd Bentley and the Lakeland, Florida ‘Revival Meetings’

Finally, Dan Phillips has his thoughts here. To give you some context, Dan is a cessationist, so is immediately more cynical than I would be about whether or not this is ‘of God’. However he offers excellent thoughts on what ‘revival’ should look like:

What I think about “the Florida revival”

These articles should give you a picture: essentially, something of God is happening, I don’t think it yet warrants being called ‘revival’, and I would have some serious doctrinal reservations about some of the teaching. Read discerningly!

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3 Comments on “Florida Revival”

  1. Dan Phillips Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Dan Phillips …is a cessationist….

    Hey, wait a minute! I’m not a….

    Okay, it’s true. I am.

    (c:

  2. Tim Suffield Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    I only think it’s fair to warn people!

    I sort of hoped it would provoked people to think something like ‘Why is Tim linking that kind of guy? He doesn’t even believe in all this stuff!?’ and then that they’d go and read your post and find God-centred, Biblically-saturated thinking that would provoke them to rethink their convictions.

    Or something like that. :)

  3. Kevin Williams Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Here’s another: Todd Bentley Describes How He’s Possessed By A Demon, Loves Violence & Attends Roman Catholic Mass.

    “Todd Friel listens to false teacher Todd Bentley describe how he’s possessed by a demon, loves violence & attends Roman Catholic Mass. Notice how people in the audience are laughing in hysterics when Todd Bentley talks about violently kicking people.
    7 min.”

    And for the record, I’m not a cessationist ;0)

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