Revival: Principles to Change the World [Paperback]

Winkie Pratney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1983

Winkie Pratney's 1984 history of revival in the Church of Jesus Christ.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Logging some 150,000+ miles a year and often speaking with over half-a-million young people annually, Winkie has wide experience in youth work. His technical background in both science and the popular music culture has given him a unique insight to the particular needs of a media-dominated technological society, and his constant monitoring of youth trends combined with continual feedback from young people themselves has helped him interpret these for those with a vital interest in the welfare of the young.

Besides annual leadership training seminars he has for three decades helped challenge and inspire young people to holy and happy living. Winkie is involved with helping and training young people of all ages and works with many leading international youth movements including Campus Life, Champions For Christ, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Youth With A Mission, Young Life, Youth Alive, and Teen Challenge. He conducts yearly leadership training for youth workers in Europe, North America and the Pacific, and has been involved as an advisory and consultant to church, civic, educational, government and social welfare leaders on the needs and problems of modern teenagers. He occasionally speaks in churches, but his primary call is to students.

A frequent featured speaker and guest on national television talk shows, his audio and video-tape lectures are carried by many effective outreach ministries as part of their training. Winkie has authored more than twelve books including youth manuals like the best-selling Youth Aflame!, Handbook For Followers Of Jesus, books on contemporary and historical issues like Devil Take The Youngest, Revival - Twenty Centuries Of Vision and Visitation, Dealing With Doubt and evangelistic and apologetic works like the contemporary devotional theology The Nature And Character Of God.

He and his son Bill's newest training work for GenXers The Daniel Files and other training materials are available free on-line via the Internet.* His "scholarship on fire" approach has resulted in the conversion of multiplied thousands of teenagers, the creation of powerful new ministries and the continual encouragement of multitudes of young believers and their leadership.

Winkie is a New Zealander and maintains a low organizational profile; no staff or mailing-list. He does not stock his own books, videos or tapes so as to encourage Christian bookstores and other ministries that do carry his materials. He is sometimes known to reply to mail, (especially from teenagers) but his frequent travels discourage lengthy correspondence and he leaves personal counseling to pastors and churches. He with his gracious wife Faeona and awesome son Billy live sometimes in New Zealand and visit often Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Whitaker House (July 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883681242
• ISBN-13: 978-0883681244
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,663,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sean Smith's roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he grew up in the inner city of Oakland. Amidst family tragedy, which included the untimely murder of his father, Sean found his life reeling with pain, but his testimony includes the phenomenal intervention of God.

Sean has spent approximately 20 years in full-time ministry, 10 of which was spent directing campus outreach ministries at the University of the Pacific and California State University Chico Campuses.

Sean has now been launched into full-time evangelism, conducting outreaches and crusades all over the States and overseas. Sean's messages are prophetic, challenging people to fulfill their destiny in Christ. Sean's services witness the Holy Spirit's supernatural release to meet people with a heart of compassion and to touch their needs. In addition to his evangelistic ministry, Sean has served as the Director of Spiritual Life at Bethany College in Scotts Valley, California. In May of 2001, Sean received a Masters in Ministry from the Wagner Leadership Institute. Sean's writings have been published in several nation-wide publications. The Smith family currently resides in San Ramon, California.

Sean Smith Ministries--Pointblank International has been established with the purpose to CARE: Captivate for Christ the hearts of a generation; Activate the army of God to fulfill its destiny; Reach out to and reap lost souls; and Equip the body of Christ to meet the challenge of the Great Commission.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on the subject of Revival you'll find..., November 7, 2002

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Barny Harper (Pensacola, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revival: Principles to Change the World (Paperback)

I'd begin this book by reading the conclusion because this accurately defines the heartbeat of an author whose heart is not just to write the biographies and histories of past revivals, but to inspire and motivate this current generation, "who know not the Lord nor the works that He has done in Israel" (Judges 2 v 10), to be a generation who usher in another mighty move of God.

If you're looking for an overview of men and moves of God, this book moves from one to the next with a passion and hunger that will keep you reading. This book doesn't just feed you information, it exposes the root of our powerlessness today in the Western Church. It underlines the fact that God has not finished working in His church, He is just waiting for a people who will yield and obey Him. "I looked for a man...".

So whether you're looking for a good devotional book, or you're searching for a book that pulsates with a hunger for God, this book will move and encourage you to press in to God, and lay hold of His purpose for THIS generation. Don't miss it, let's grab the baton and go after God! Be blessed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pragmatic View of Revival, December 26, 2008

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Roy Ingle "The Seeking Disciple" (Lexington, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Revival: Principles to Change the World (Paperback)

I will first admit before I begin this review that I have much respect for Winkie Pratney and his ministry. YWAM has done much good for the glory of God and for that I am thankful. By no means do I write this review to attack Pratney nor his ministry per se.

This is a somewhat dated book on revival. The book was written and published in 1983. Therefore it lacks some content about the fall of some prominent Pentecostal figures as well as the 1990's with the entire Toronto and Pensacola revivals. On a minor note the author uses the KJV where he does include Scripture.

The positives of this book are that the book is full of studies of past revivals. Pratney does a good job of showing the power of revival to change entire nations. He shows how Acts records that the disciples turned the world upside down through the gospel. Pratney focuses on revival's since Pentecost (Acts 2) focusing mainly on the English and American revivals. He does briefly touch on revivals in South America and Asia. The book includes brief sketches of revivals under men such as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and the Pentecostal/Charismatic revivals of the 20th century.

The negatives of this book are many for me. First, the author is limited in his details on revivals. Pratney could have done well to show the postives of the First Great Awakening under Edwards but show its errors as well that Edwards defined after the revival. The same could be shown of the Pentecostal revivals as well. Second, Pratney spends little time in the Scriptures defining revival. While the word "revival" is not found in the Bible, Pratney could have done a better job of showing biblical principles for revival such as those under Ezra or John the Baptist or even Acts. Third, Pratney spends little time on theology. The theology of a revival does matter. The theology of William Branham is important to keep in mind as he rejected the trinity, believed in a personal angel that travled with him and spoke to him, and some of Branham's followers believed he would raised from the dead after he died since he was so close to God. Branham's theological errors needs to be discussed. Fourth, Pratney (and possibly this is the publishers fault) labels Arminianism as Armeninism. Armenians are an ethnic group while Arminians are a theological system from Jacobus Arminius. There is a difference.

Overall this is not a good book to study revival. There are better books both on the history of revival as well as the theology of revival. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' book on revival comes to mind.

5.0 out of 5 stars Revival, Winkie Pratney, Principles to Change the World., January 31, 2010

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Andy Monty "GODSPEED- Thank you for helping H... (WEST TOWNSEND, MA, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revival Principles To Change the World (Paperback)

This well sought after book is a not just a revival of self but a revival of an age, an era. Taken into consideration that the world is in a chaotic state, this changing outlook is food for a starving world. What are principles? Well read this book and you will absolutely know. A page turner. A. Monty