Flashpoints of Revival : History's Mighty Revivals [Paperback]

Geoff Waugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1998

Using eyewitness accounts, Geoff Waugh takes you inside the hearts and minds of people in revivals spanning the last three centuries. Beginning with the Moravians in 1727, this book gives first person reports of revivals in Europe, America, Canada, Africa, India, Korea, Chile and more, including recent revivals.

Dr C Peter Wagner, wrote in the foreword:  
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.
 
Here in America, it seems to me that 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.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Geoff Waugh's comprehensive and up-to-date book provides a global perspective of the unexpected and transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Read, be inspired and encouraged.
Rev Dr John Olley
--Endorsement of Flashpoints of Revival (2nd ed.) 2009

The first time I read this book, I couldn't put it down.  Not only were the stories researched with clear and concise data, but they provide an account of revivals that blew my mind away.  An inspirational read.
  --Romulo Nayacalevu, Fiji

This work is of great significance.  It is a comprehensive overview of the major revivals during the last three centuries. Churches and Christians around the world will benefit greatly from this timely contribution. --Rev Prof Dr James Haire

It will be a compendium for historians and others interested in the subject for a long time to come. I doubt if there is a resource quite like it for logical progression and comprehensive treatment.
  --Rev Tony Cupit

It is very informative and up to date concerning revivals both past and present. I am confident that this book will be well received by many scholars and historians. --Rev Dr Naomi Dowdy --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Author

This book surveys revivals, especially in the last 300 years, with many brief, first person reports.  I taught on renewal and revival in Bible Colleges in the South Pacific and in colleges in Brisbane, Australia.

Bounding across the vivid green ridges and gorges of Papua New Guinea's highlands, I found a gem in Meg, my wonderful wife, now in heaven.  We were both Australian missionaries and brought our first child home to our bamboo and grass house in the majestic highlands. We became grateful grandparents, proud of our extended family of three children and their children.  Together we have explored dynamic renewal and transforming revival.

My work with various church traditions gave me great scope for renewal ministry.  Part of that ministry was leading the interdenominational Renewal Fellowship in Brisbane.  I deeply appreciate the support and encouragement of that group, especially traveling as teams to various churches and to other countries. I'll always remember the June monsoon rains in Ghana that ceased on the first night of our open-air, combined-churches crusade there and began again the day after our last meeting.  I loved teaching inaugural courses on the History of Revivals and on Signs and Wonders at the warmly hospitable Asian Theological Seminary in Manila in the Philippines in their hot summer schools. Our mission teams trekked to dedicated little churches in the cities and villages of Nepal, India and Sri Lanka where a bewildering array of faith-filled Bible Schools inspired us all. They ranged from small local church ones in Nepal and Sri Lanka to the 600-student campus of the indigenous Indian Inland Mission near New Delhi in India.
 
In the nineties I began editing the interdenominational Renewal Journal and we published 20 issues in a decade.  They are now available on the web along with mission and publication news.
 
I taught at Trinity Theological College and the School of Ministries at Christian Heritage College in Brisbane. The CHC college offers degrees in ministry, education, social sciences, business and arts.  Initially they invited me to write the submission for the government accredited Bachelor of Ministry degree, and then I continued teaching there beyond being retired, or re-fired.  Their School of Ministries is also the Bible School for Christian Outreach Centre, an Australian revival movement with over 200 churches in Australia and more than 1400 in other nations.
 
Christians are one in Christ.  That is a theological fact and eternal reality.  As we rediscover that reality through repentance, reconciliation, unity and love, we also discover revival transformation.  God honors his promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14:  If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 162 pages
• Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers; 1st edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0768410029
• ISBN-13: 978-0768410020
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,181,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Geoff Waugh, born in 1937, is the eldest of his minister father's nine children and began teaching at 19 with a great class of 43 boys. He then completed theological college and taught in schools and Bible Schools in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, living mostly in bamboo and grass roof houses, sometimes in villages. He married Meg, also a teacher, and their first child was born in the remote mission hospital. They returned to Australia, where two more children were born, and they lived mainly in Brisbane in an extended family community home linked with other community homes involved in renewal. Geoff taught on renewal and revival at Bible College, Trinity Theological College and Christian Heritage College.

Geoff enjoys travel. The family explored Israel for two months, based in Jerusalem and Tiberius on Galilee, and visited the Sinai and Egypt, sailing on the Nile and climbing into the Great Pyramid. Geoff and Meg toured Europe including visiting Oberammergau for the Passion Play, and led mission teams to many countries. Geoff enjoys cross-cultural mission and taught on revival and transformation to church leaders in Africa, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Philippines, China, and the South Pacific nations of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

Eight grandchildren now enrich his life. Geoff lives with five of them and their parents in a large extended family home, designed and built by his son to accommodate two families plus a granny flat, and many visitors. They have hosted mission teams and church leaders from overseas. Three generations of them, father, son and eldest grandchild, have been on mission overseas together.

Geoff's books focus on renewal and revival. They include Flashpoints of Revival (2 editions), South Pacific Revivals, Light on the Mountains: Pioneer Mission in PNG, Living in the Spirit (2 editions), Fruit and Gifts of the Spirit, Church on Fire, The Leader's Goldmine, three Kingdom Life study books (Matthew, Mark, Luke), and his autobiographical adventures, Looking to Jesus: Journey into Renewal and Revival.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a recommended read, August 27, 2000

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Tom (scotgar @ hotmail.com) (Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flashpoints of Revival : History's Mighty Revivals (Paperback)

Mr Waugh has done his research well, and offers a fascinating little study of revival history throughout the centuries and across continents. Unlike many such studies though, this author concentrates not on those great 18th and 19th Century awakenings, but on revivals of the 20th Century. Some of these are not well known at all, so his information is most appreciated, eg Solomon Island in the 1970's, amongst Australian Aboriginees in the 1980's, etc. He does spend an awful lot of time focusing on 'renewal' in the 1990's (eg Toronto), which many, including myself, would not include in the category of true historical revival. Apart from this, this is a most worthwhile read indeed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Survey, June 24, 2009

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Philip Waugh (Sydney, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flashpoints of Revival: History's Mighty Revivals (Paperback)

This book gives the story of well known and also lesser known revivals of the Holy Spirit. At first I was expecting a critical analysis of strengths and weaknesses, or discussion of what controversies arose. Yet the strength of this book is that it welcomes the many forms of revival and the always new ways in which God decides to act. In the end you are left with a feeling that God is constantly doing new and otherwise impossible things, and a feeling that more is around the corner. Informative and encouraging. A subject that we should be examining with greater priority.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Handbook for revival history, August 5, 2008

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Martin Mitchell (Park Ridge, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flashpoints of Revival : History's Mighty Revivals (Paperback)

This is a great reference book providing information of when, where and how God has touched regions and people groups with his manifest presence over history. Many of these events are included and reported on providing the reader with an overview and insight into when revival has broken out and its impact on people, church and society.