Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics [Paperback]

John Crowder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006

Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics contains more than 70 photos, illustrations, and biographies of men and women whose lives have demonstrated the phenomenal throughout the ages. Let their stories inspire you to join their ranks as part of this coming revival generation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 391 pages
• Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0768423503
• ISBN-13: 978-0768423501
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Crowder is an internationally recognized author, speaker and advocate of supernatural Christianity. John is on the forefront of a fresh renewal movement marked by ecstatic joy, miracles and recovering the foundational preaching of the cross of grace.

As founder of Sons of Thunder Ministries & Publications, John hosts massive evangelism campaigns in some of the poorest areas of the world. SOT also houses, clothes, feeds and educates orphaned and abandoned children. His team hosts mission trips, bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ into some of the most dangerous places on the globe - in addition to visiting the poor in garbage dumps, leper colonies and war zones.

John has authored four books, including: Mystical Union, Seven Spirits Burning, The New Mystics, and The Ecstasy of Loving God. He also publishes a number of multimedia resources, including a bi-annual magazine, The Ecstatic. John broadcasts a free weekly video teaching - The Jesus Trip - featuring fresh teaching. John also offers a monthly Web seminar for subscribers called Inner Sanctum at TheNewMystics.TV

John hosts multiple supernatural equipping schools throughout the year, called Mystical Schools. These are three-day intensives aimed at instilling a theology of grace and the finished work of the cross, while activating believers in a miraculous, Spirit-filled life of creative miracles. He also speaks at conferences, seminars and churches worldwide.

John, his wife Lily, and their four children find satisfaction in the simplicity of loving God and demonstrating the finished works of the Cross. They have partnered together with friends to plant The Santa Cruz Church in Santa Cruz, California. John carries a vision to see mystical, supernatural Christianity restored to the church and for revival to burn to the margins of society. Find out more about the Crowders and Sons of Thunder at TheNewMystics.com.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, February 22, 2007

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P. Verbeck (Tonasket, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics (Paperback)

I really loved reading this book. It's full of historical accounts, documenting amazing supernational events surrounding real people, living real lives. I grew up in the church and was familiar with many names, but had no real understanding of who these people were or the context of thier lives. I was surprised at how quickly I read from cover to cover, bearly putting it down. I loved it and have given it as gifts since. Thanks to the author for a great work!!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book by an awesome believer!, October 13, 2007

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G. Cameron "Agape4u" (South West Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics (Paperback)

I just spent the last 3 nights in GLORY HARVEST meetings with John Crowder and his wife, Lili. What awesome and sweet spirited couple who travel with their 4 young children.

Crazy man? No. Sold out radical? YES!!! Beware, though. If you have a religious spirit you will more than likely be offended by this book. He knows his church history, though, and most of the incidents he has documented will astonish you!

I can't wait for he and Lily to come back to Branson, MO again!

I highly recommend this book! You won't be able to put it down!

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looking For God in the Mystical, July 14, 2008

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Roy Ingle "The Seeking Disciple" (Lexington, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics (Paperback)

With few exceptions, most Christians are hungry for a true move of God. Many of us read the book of Acts and we long for the presence and power of God as seen in the early Church. We want the miracles and we want the thousands of conversions but do we want to pay the price? Are we prepared for the suffering, the persecution, the murders, and the attacks from Satan and his demonic forces?

In this book, John Crowder believes we are living in Acts again. In this book Crowder presents story after story that are incredible! Angels, healings, prophetic visions, dreams, and words of knowledge are all profoundly wrote about by Crowder. The book is written to give the reader a passion for the mystical. Crowder believes that the Church history is full of people who were "mystics" such as St. John of the Cross, Madame Gunyon, and modern day people such as Todd Bentley, Bill Johnson, Bob Jones, William Branham, and Oral Roberts.

While the book is full of interesting accounts from both the life and ministry of Crowder and his New Mystics and many others, the book is lacking in biblical exegesis. Crowder rarely interacts with Scripture unless it is to back up a point or an experience. In fact, Crowder seems to me to argue against deep personal study of the Bible in favour of a mystical communion with God. For instance, when Crowder writes on prayer he teaches from the new age Thomas Merton and contemplative prayer. Crowder believes that the mystic Merton and others found a powerful tool for true praying in contemplative prayer that the Church has lost. Crowder never examines the Bible for contemplative prayer but simply favours it because of its mystical roots and where it leads. He even favours out-of-body experiences from contemplative prayer.

I can not recommend this book. It is simply not biblical. It is not biblical both because of what it teaches and the fact that Crowder does not truly dive into the Bible. I am all for what the Puritans called, "experiential Christianity" but not wild mysticism without a solid biblical foundation. There are better books on prayer (E.M. Bounds, Samuel Chadwick, John Wesley, Andrew Murray), on devotion (Leonard Ravenhill, Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur, John Piper), and on experiencs based on the authority of the Bible (Ray Comfort, Anthony Palma, French Arrington, Douglas Jacoby) that are out there.